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Updated Jan. 9, 2024 3:07 am ET GSK is buying biopharmaceutical company Aiolos Bio for up to $1.4 billion in a deal that expands its respiratory pipeline and follows a string of pharmaceutical majors buying fast-growing biotechs to restock their pipelines. The British pharmaceutical giant said Tuesday that the deal to buy San Francisco and…

It used to be fairly easy to dismiss Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, as a clownish anti-vaccine quack posing a danger mostly to residents of his home state. That has become harder to do as time goes on, as Ladapo has moved from promoting useless treatments for COVID-19, such as the drugs hydroxychloroquine…

Listen to article (2 minutes) After Allstate suffered billions of dollars in losses and failed to get the rate increases it wanted, it resorted to the nuclear option.  The insurance giant threatened last fall to stop renewing auto insurance for customers in three states that hadn’t given in to its demands, which would have left…

You can also get a measurement on demand through a new blood oxygen monitoring app in 15 seconds. More is better, and so the Apple Watch will alert you with notifications starting later this year if your blood oxygen levels dip. There’s also a newer, brighter display to help you see the screen even in…

For travelers trying to reach their destinations during the storm-tossed holiday season last year, there was no problem identifying the Grinch who stole Christmas: It was Southwest Airlines. Southwest, it may be recalled, canceled or delayed more than 16,900 flights between Dec. 21 and Jan. 2, stranding more than 2 million passengers. The meltdown kept…

There will be “little to no Tube service” on the London Underground, Transport for London warns.