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France to end homeopathy funding

Bloomberg France will stop funding the homeopathic pills and tinctures made by Boiron SA and rivals at the start of 2021, following the advice of a health panel that spent months reviewing the medicines. Boiron CEO Valerie Poinsot has said that sales of reimbursed treatments could plummet by 50 percent in France, where the company brings in almost half its ...

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UK lags behind in efforts to cut greenhouse gas pollution

Bloomberg The UK has fallen behind on its promises to slash emissions and fight climate change despite claims it’s leading major industrialised nations in its fight to slow global warming. That’s the conclusion of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the government’s official adviser on environmental policies, which suggests ministers need to take much more dramatic action to meet their ...

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Feud between India’s IndiGo founders starts getting ugly

Bloomberg A dispute between the founders of Asia’s biggest budget airline deepened after one accused the other of dubious governance practices, roiling the company’s shares and raising concerns that the feud will drag on. Billionaire Rakesh Gangwal informed IndiGo’s operator, InterGlobe Aviation Ltd, that he flagged some of his governance concerns about co-founder Rahul Bhatia to the Securities and Exchange ...

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