PENSACOLA, Fla. — Florida attorney Fred Levin, who won a major legal battle against the tobacco industry in the 1990s, has died several days after contracting the coronavirus. He was 83. An attorney at the Levin Papantonio Rafferty legal firm says Levin died Tuesday from complications of COVID-19, the...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand will soon require that travelers from most countries show negative coronavirus tests before they leave for New Zealand. COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says New Zealand is in a fortunate position to have stamped out community spread of the virus, but takes...
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially Monday: Apple Inc., down $3.07 to $128.98. The iPhone maker removed Parler, a social media platform popular with the far right, from its app stores because of threats to public safety. Eli Lilly and Co., up $19.53 to $185.94. The drug...
On a Saturday afternoon in March as COVID-19 was bearing down on New York City, a dozen scientists anxiously crowded around a computer in a suburban drug company’s lab. They had spent weeks frantically getting blood from early survivors across the globe and from mice with human-like immune systems —...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows: ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.; Adm. Brett Giroir, the Health and Human Services Department official overseeing coronavirus testing; Jennifer Granholm, President-elect Joe Biden's pick to run the Energy...
Shares of Eli Lilly climbed Tuesday after the drugmaker laid out a better-than-expected revenue forecast and plans to buy a young company developing a potential Parkinson’s disease treatment. Lilly also projected a 2021 earnings range that brackets average Wall Street expectations. The Indianapolis-based...
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially Tuesday: Eli Lilly and Co., up $9.52 to $167.43. The drug developer raised its profit forecast for the year and said it is buying Prevail Therapeutics for at least $880 million. Waste Management Inc., up $2 to $116.78. The waste management...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. has given the final go-ahead to the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine, marking what could be the beginning of the end of an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans. Shots for health workers and nursing home residents are expected to begin in the coming days after the...
HONOLULU — Anyone flying to Hawaii will be required to have a negative COVID-19 test result prior to their departure for the state, with the new rule going into effect two days before Thanksgiving, Gov. David Ige announced Thursday. Until now, passengers flying to the islands using a pre-travel testing...