AstraZeneca

Europe News

EU long-term budget: Is health funding on the chopping block?

As new priorities demand greater resources, the health sector risks significant cuts in the upcoming long-term EU budget.

12/06/2025

Business

AstraZeneca reports strong results boosted by promising trials

AstraZeneca continued to see strong growth in 2024 on the back of a series of positive trials, as well as a solid pipeline of products.

06/02/2025

Business

AstraZeneca beats expectations and raises guidance despite China woes

AstraZeneca raises its fiscal 2024 guidance for the second consecutive quarter. This upgrade comes despite ongoing legal challenges in China as it reported robust third-quarter earnings results.

12/11/2024

Business

AstraZeneca leads in valuation as it bets on cancer drugs portfolio

The company has tied up with Eccogene, a Chinese biotech firm, for a new experimental weight loss drug. The weight loss market is currently dominated by Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk.

14/08/2024

Business

AstraZeneca announces a billion-dollar cancer plant in Singapore

The new factory highlights a rising trend by pharmaceutical companies to develop production facilities in local markets, to ensure a smoother supply chain and further cement their regional influence.

20/05/2024

Business

AstraZeneca stock up as it pulls Covid-19 vaccine from European market

The pharma giant AstraZeneca has requested that the European authorisation for its Covid-19 vaccine be pulled, according to the EU medicines regulator.

09/05/2024

Health news

AstraZeneca asks for European approval of COVID jab to be pulled

AstraZeneca was one of the first pharma laboratories to launch a COVID vaccine on the market at the end of 2020, a year after the virus appeared.

08/05/2024

Business

AstraZeneca reports bumper revenue in Q1 2024 on strong drug demand

AstraZeneca continued to see strong earnings boosted primarily by its oncology branch, as well as its respiratory and immunology segment.

25/04/2024

Business

AstraZeneca CEO set to earn £18.7 million after shareholder backing

More than 60% of shareholders backed the decision to raise Pascal Soriot’s pay packet, solidifying his position as the highest earning FTSE 100 boss.

12/04/2024

Markets

AstraZeneca shares tumble despite posting strong sales for cancer drug

Shares in AstraZeneca were down nearly 4% on the London Stock Exchange on Thursday morning after reporting its latest financial results.

08/02/2024

Business

Have healthcare stocks been under the weather in 2023?

Euronews Business looks at how major healthcare stocks such as Pfizer and Moderna performed this year

29/12/2023

Health news

Davos 2022: Is the world ready to fight off the next health crisis?

Preparing the world for another health crisis is a hot topic in Davos this week. Euronews Next spoke to AstraZeneca about lessons learned from COVID.

24/05/2022

Health news

Here’s what COVID vaccine makers are doing about the Omicron variant

COVID vaccine manufacturers are racing to develop new doses to combat the rising number of cases connected to the Omicron variant.

08/12/2021

Health news

COVID vaccines: Scientists may have solved mystery of rare blood clots

The AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines are associated with extremely rare cases of blood clots - and now scientists think they may know what’s behind this.

02/12/2021

Europe News

EU ends legal dispute with AstraZeneca over vaccine delays

The Commission and the company have struck a deal to guarantee all the 300 million doses will be delivered by the end of March 2022.

03/09/2021

United Kingdom

Blood clot risk from vaccines ‘much lower’ than those from COVID-19

A new study by the BMJ found there was an increased risk of rare blood clots associated with AstraZeneca and Pfizer’s vaccine, but that risk was much higher in patients who tested positive for coronavirus.

27/08/2021

Germany

COVID-19 booster shots already underway in several countries

Some countries are starting to offer a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine for the most vulnerable, in an attempt to combat the spread of the Delta variant.

03/08/2021

Health news

AstraZeneca and Pfizer COVID vaccines have 'similar' blood clot risk

Researchers in Barcelona found both jabs carried a similarly low risk of blood clots, while people infected with COVID-19 were much more likely to develop them.

29/07/2021

Russia

Russia approves testing combination of Sputnik & AstraZeneca vaccines

Russia’s health officials have given a go-ahead to test a combination of the Oxford-AstraZeneca and the Sputnik V vaccines.

27/07/2021

Travel News

British tourists may face EU travel ban over unapproved vaccine

Doses of vaccine revealed to be unapproved by European Medicines Agency amid concerns over spread of Delta variant from UK.

02/07/2021