By Allison Lampert, David Ljunggren and Doyinsola Oladipo (Reuters) -Air Canada said on Thursday it expects to cancel several dozen flights by day’s end and around 500 flights by the end of Friday affecting 100,000 passengers, ahead of a planned Saturday strike by its unionized flight attendants. Mark Nasr, chief operations officer at Air Canada, said the complexity of the carrier’s network, w ...
By Mariam Sunny (Reuters) -Eli Lilly has signed a deal worth $1.3 billion with privately held Superluminal Medicines to discover and develop small-molecule drugs through AI to treat obesity and other cardiometabolic diseases. Lilly currently dominates the obesity treatment market, estimated to be worth $150 billion by the next decade, and is trying to strengthen its foothold in the space through t ...
By Stefania Spezzati and Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) -HSBC plans to step up surveillance of staff and buildings by adding more cameras and biometric access to its premises globally, internal documents seen by Reuters show, a move that comes amid growing concerns about companies’ extensive monitoring of workers. As part of its "global security strategy", the bank plans a four-fold increase in t ...
(Reuters) -Costco Wholesale said on Thursday it will stop selling abortion pill mifepristone across all its U.S. pharmacy stores, citing low demand. "Our position at this time not to sell mifepristone, which has not changed, is based on the lack of demand from our members and other patients, who we understand generally have the drug dispensed by their medical providers," Costco said, adding that i ...