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• Moderna quarterly sales beat expectations but plummet from previous year

  First-quarter revenue included $100 million in U.S. sales and $67 million from the rest of the world, which was mostly driven by markets in Latin America.

  

• UnitedHealth is not too big to fail, CEO tells Senate panel

  Senators grilled Witty during the first of two scheduled testimonies in front of Congressional panels on the recent cyberattack on UnitedHealth's technology unit that impacted almost all patients and providers.

  

• Florida's 6-week abortion ban takes effect as doctors worry women will lose access to health care

  The Florida Supreme Court, with five of its seven members appointed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, ruled 6-1 last month to uphold the state's ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which cleared the way for the six-week ban.

  

• US to reclassify cannabis as low-risk drug, in major shift

  Marijuana has been classified since 1970 as a so-called "Schedule I" drug along with heroin, ecstasy and LSD, meaning it is deemed to have no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.

  

• Granules gets USFDA nod for generic gout medication

  The company's product is therapeutically equivalent to Hikma International Pharmaceuticals LLC's Mitigare Capsules (0.6 mg)

  

• Rio de Janeiro tests new recipe against childhood obesity

  Nearly one-third of children in Brazil are obese, an epidemic city health officials and community leaders are seeking to address in innovative ways, enlisting school cafeterias and taking their message of healthful eating to the street.

  

• Philippine students are told to stay home as Southeast Asia swelters in prolonged heat wave

  Chauk township in Magway, historically the country's hottest region, saw Myanmar's highest temperature at 48.2 degrees Celsius (118.8 degrees Fahrenheit), breaking the previous record of 47.4 degrees Celsius (117.3 degrees Fahrenheit) set in 1968.

  

• AstraZeneca acknowledges covid vaccine can lead to rare side effect TSS in court; Here's what we know

  In a legal document submitted to the High Court, the multinational pharmaceutical company admitted, "It is admitted that the AZ vaccine can, in very rare cases, cause TTS. The causal mechanism is not known."

  

• Glenmark Pharma gets USFDA nod for Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen tablets

  The regulatory authority has determined these tabletes as bioequivalent to Advil Dual Action with Acetaminophen Tablets, 250 mg/125 mg (OTC), of Haleon US Holdings.