Global medicines shortages are forcing HIV patients to travel to India for treatment, lead to heart surgery cancellations in Vietnam, and push British anesthetists to use outdated drugs, UK newspaper The Telegraph reported on Friday, citing British medical professionals

The 40,000-strong National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) said on Wednesday that it would hold a ballot to strike over job cuts and pay freezes in the government-owned rail infrastructure company Network Rail, and called it "potentially the biggest rail strike in modern history" of the United Kingdom

The UK pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and and its US partner Vir Biotechnology have submitted an application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an expanded emergency use authorization (EUA) of their COVID-19 intramuscular antibody treatment sotrovimab, the two companies announced on Thursday

The Japanese Health Ministry will not recommend the use of the Ronapreve antibody medicine by Swiss pharma company Roche and US company Regeneron for treating Omicron patients due to low effectiveness, the NHK broadcaster reported on Saturday

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Thursday it had recommended GlaxoSmithKline's antibody-based medicine Xevudy for the treatment of the coronavirus disease

French pharma giant Sanofi said Wednesday that a single dose of a COVID-19 vaccine booster produced jointly with its UK partner GlaxoSmithKline gave a good immune response during advanced human trials