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    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Disease control and prevention
      WHO asks China for data on ‘undiagnosed pneumonia’ cases

      Health body’s concern reflects heightened vigilance over signs of disease outbreaks since Covid pandemic

      Children and their parents wait to be seen at a children’s hospital in Beijing
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      AstraZeneca PLC
      AstraZeneca fights accusations its Covid-19 jab was ‘defective’

      Vaccine recipient claims he suffered side effect of severe blood clot

      A health worker prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Autumn Statement
      Benefits recipients fear financial squeeze of chancellor’s welfare reforms

      Claimants previously assessed as too sick for a job worried they could be told to work from home

      Michael Robinson
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Bayer AG
      Bayer shares plunge after blood-thinning drug trial halted

      German group says prospective blockbuster asundexian failed to demonstrate efficacy

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    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      EU countries warn of health risks caused by climate change Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Why tourists and residents are fighting over Rome’s sidewalks

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      Rana Foroohar
      Behold the Ozempic effect on business

      A new crop of weight-loss drugs is disrupting markets as well as transforming waistlines

      An illustration of a bottle of pills with a shadow taking shape as a bag of dollars
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Joanne Liu
      Patients and doctors must never become targets of war

      In any conflict situation, from Gaza to Ukraine, medical staff must be protected and given unhindered access to patients

    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      GP staff in England warn many buildings ‘not fit for purpose’

      Royal College of GPs urges government to take action over ‘unsafe’ infrastructure ahead of Autumn Statement

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    • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
      Ella Risbridger
      Can you keep a secret? Try, it’s good for you

      In the age of the like, the share and the overshare, enjoy the quiet glee of hanging on to good news

      A picture of a forest. If a tree falls in a forest and nobody posts a leaf-strewn, autumnal image on Instagram, did it really happen?
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Autumn Statement
      UK to spend £2.5bn on employment support

      Chancellor to announce plans to tackle long-term sickness and joblessness in Autumn Statement next week

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    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      AI boosts breast cancer detection rates, new research shows

      Study shows potential of technology to improve and speed up medical diagnoses

      Microscopic photo of a professionally prepared slide demonstrating breast tissue with ductal carcinoma: AI analysis flagged up to 13 per cent more cases than doctors had identified
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Medical science
      UK approves Crispr gene editing therapy in global first

      Regulator authorises treatment for sickle cell disease and beta thalassaemia

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    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Working It
      Your wellbeing plans don’t work

      Why it may be time to ditch the apps and meditation zones — plus the Office Therapy advice column

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      Biotech raises funds to find cancer treatments using transgenic mice

      T-Therapeutics hopes to use genetically engineered rodents and machine learning to discover drugs

      Allan Bradley, founder of T-Therapeutics
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      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
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      Anjana Ahuja selects her must-read titles

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      FT SeriesTech Champions
      Airfinity gives decision makers big picture on health

      Covid may have abated, but emerging diseases and new drug categories are keeping the analytics firm busy

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    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      Health leaders urge UK government to ‘pull every lever’ to prevent strikes

      NHS Providers chief warns of ‘sense of dread’ among staff ahead of winter as union remains locked in pay dispute

      A BMA organiser holds placards calling for a better pay deal during a strike day in August
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      LexTyson Foods Inc
      US meat producers: record beef prices stick a fork in profits Premium content

      With real meat facing real problems, investors should cut back their exposure

      Employees cut fresh beef meat into small pieces at the First Capitol Meat Processing plant in Corydon, Indiana
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      HTSI
      Introducing the kip-fit system, the bed that’s also a gym

      Can’t find space for your home workout? The Pivot is here to help

      The author sits on the Pivot bed and home gym, from £2,999
    • Saturday, 11 November, 2023
      Novo Nordisk AS
      Novo Nordisk’s obesity drug cuts risk of death by 18%, trial data shows

      Wegovy found to have ‘quite profound’ effect on reducing risk of heart attacks, says pharma group

      A 0.25 mg injection pen of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
      Israelis grapple with the collective trauma of October 7

      For many, resuming normal life is a desecration, an abandonment of the hostages and the dead

      Illustration of a woman in a red dress looking at a tunnel at the end of which are many people huddled together
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      UK social care
      UK government failing to track social care plans, spending watchdog finds

      NAO says just £729mn from original £1.7bn budget may now be spent between 2022 and 2025

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    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      AstraZeneca PLC
      AstraZeneca signs deal for oral obesity drug and lifts profit outlook

      Anglo-Swedish drugmaker’s oncology and rare disease medication sales offset waning demand for Covid jabs

      An AstraZeneca facility in Sweden
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      FT Magazine
      Algorithms are deciding who gets organ transplants. Are their decisions fair?

      Sarah Meredith was in urgent need of a liver when she found out an algorithm would be making the life-or-death decision

    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Pharmaceuticals sector
      Approval for Eli Lilly obesity drug sets up rival to Wegovy

      US and UK regulators say diabetes medication showed ‘significant’ weight loss benefits

      Eli Lilly headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana,
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