Bloomberg Britain’s two largest drugmakers, betting on a new generation of cancer treatments that block tumor cells from fixing their damaged DNA, showed that these medicines work in a broad swath of patients. Women with ovarian cancer treated with GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s drug Zejula had a 38 percent reduction in the risk of dying or seeing the disease progress, the company ...

Bloomberg Switzerland’s government is bracing for a possible recession as the country’s economy goes through a difficult period and faces substantial risks, economy minister Guy Parmelin told a newspaper. “There are several signs pointing to a slowdown,” Parmelin told Schweiz am Wochenende. “The trade war between the US and China, the blockade of the WTO, the stagnating economy in Germany ...

Bloomberg Social media platforms based in the US including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person familiar with the matter. The accord, which is set to be signed by next month, will compel social media firms to share information to support ...