Feb 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said a television advertisement for Novo Nordisk's weight-loss pill is "false or misleading", according to a letter dated February 5.
The health regulator said the television spot misleadingly suggests that Wegovy in its pill form offers an advancement or improvement over other weight-loss drugs that belong to the class known as GLP-1s.
The FDA also said the claims "live lighter"... (continue reading...)
Feb 9 (Reuters) - The United States issued fresh guidance on Monday to commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping lane for Middle East oil supplies, as tensions simmered between Washington and Tehran over Iran’s nuclear program.
Iran has in the past threatened to close down the Strait of Hormuz, a portion of which lies within its territorial waters, and has at times seized commercial ships and oil tankers moving through the... (continue reading...)
By Marianna Parraga
Feb 9 (Reuters) - Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA has reversed most of the output cuts it had ordered at its own oilfields and joint ventures in the country's main crude region, the Orinoco Belt, boosting the nation's total production close to 1 million barrels per day (bpd), sources close to operations said.
The OPEC country had to cut back crude output, its main source of revenue, following an oil blockade in... (continue reading...)
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A fresh examination of radar data for Venus obtained by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s indicates the presence of a large underground cavity created by a lava flow, the first subsurface feature ever detected on Earth's planetary neighbor.
Researchers said the radar data was consistent with a geological feature called a lava tube that is found in certain volcanic locations on Earth. Lava... (continue reading...)
FRANKFURT, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's policy rate is at the right level as inflation is likely to settle at its 2% goal after a short-lived dip, ECB policymaker Joachim Nagel said on Monday.
The ECB unanimously kept its main interest rate unchanged at 2% last week, but some policymakers remain concerned that price growth, which eased to 1.7% last month, might weaken too much, forcing the euro zone's central bank to react.
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