PARIS — To fund its ramp-up to market, artificial heart maker Paris-based Carmat SA raised €50 million ($55 million) through a reserved capital increase put together by a cluster of elite French institutional investors.

PARIS – With increasing reports of neurological disorders and neonatal malformations caused by the Zika virus from 22 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an international emergency, calling it an “extraordinary event.”