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US politics & policy
Biden stands by Austin despite lack of hospitalisation disclosure
...The defence secretary was “conscious but in quite a bit of pain” when he was taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in the company of his security detail and an aide, and admitted to the intensive...
January 8, 2024
Republican Party US
Republicans risk voter backlash as they advance attacks on abortion
...Nancy Mace, a member of Congress from South Carolina, has been one of the few Republicans to publicly criticise her party’s stance on abortion....
April 14, 2023
FT Live
US Pharma and Biotech Summit
Strategies for innovation, pricing and access
Thursday, 16 MayNew York, NY, USA
The Big Read
The Biden administration takes on the US drugs industry
...The 71-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina, has worked multiple jobs over the past decade to help cover the steep costs of the prescription drugs he needs to treat a rare form of blood cancer and diabetes...
September 18, 2023
The Big Read
Artificial sweeteners: the health controversy that will not go away
...Duane Mellor, a senior teaching fellow and nutritional expert at Aston Medical School in the UK, questions how significant the changes observed in Suez’s study are....
October 1, 2023
The Big Read
How an era of extreme heat is reshaping economies
...Officials shut the site for several hours during the hottest parts of the day, after holidaymakers queueing to enter required medical attention....
July 21, 2023
FT Magazine
How a squad of MAGA warriors flush with cash turned on each other
...And it would have its own medical advisory council as an alternative to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since the medical system was corrupt, she was going to create a new one....
July 20, 2023
FT Live
Global Pharma and Biotech Summit
Driving life sciences innovation in a disrupted world
Tuesday, 5 NovemberIn-Person & Online Conference
News in-depthDrugs research
Race is on to develop new generation of weight-loss drugs
...More than four in 10 American adults are clinically obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which estimated the annual medical costs of the condition at almost $173bn in 2019....
December 28, 2022
News in-depthCoronavirus
Residents and guards suffer on Beijing’s zero-Covid front line
...A local branch of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday deemed Shi a “close contact over time and space” — even though she had not seen the colleague — and she was told to prepare...
May 16, 2022
Covid-19 vaccines
FDA panel recommends redesigning Covid vaccine to target Omicron variant
...Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said authorities are trying to get ahead of the virus by matching vaccines more closely to the most widespread strains to...
June 28, 2022
Special ReportFT Health: Future of Antibiotics
Antibiotic resistance raises prospect of untreatable gonorrhoea
...But Robert Nicholas, a biomedical researcher at the University of North Carolina, says this would merely serve as a “stop-gap until new antibiotics are developed”....
July 19, 2022
FT Magazine
Global sperm counts are falling. This scientist believes she knows why
...She was sitting next to a chemist from the CDC called John Brock, now a professor at the University of North Carolina, who told her that scientists had identified a “phthalate syndrome” in rats....
June 22, 2023
Roe vs Wade
Kansas abortion vote tests public opinion after Supreme Court ruling
...About 18 per cent of adults in Kansas are Catholic, according to the Pew Research Center....
August 2, 2022
The Big Read
How abortion rights are upending the US midterm elections
...But the ruling has paved the way for its possible implementation and prosecutions to begin, leaving many women in the state as well as the medical community in limbo....
September 26, 2022
Drugs research
Eli Lilly says obesity drug has similar results to weight-loss surgery
...Patrick O’Neil, an expert on obesity at Medical University of South Carolina, said the new drugs represented a step change in the treatment of obesity, compared to previous treatments....
April 28, 2022
Coronavirus
US reports global record of more than 1m daily Covid cases
...Case rates have more than doubled in the past week in 27 states, rising fourfold in North Carolina and Louisiana....
January 4, 2022
FT Live
Funding Biopharma Innovation
Strategies for investing in drug development and commercialization
Wednesday, 26 June345 Park Avenue South, New York, NY, USA
FT Magazine
What does it mean to be a boy online in 2023?
...Bliss chose a medical term because, “like every sickness, toxic masculinity has an antidote”....
April 6, 2023
House & Home
Pandemic relocations deepen Hawaii’s housing crisis
...Staff shortages are particularly acute in Hawaii’s medical sector....
July 15, 2022
Coronavirus: CDC says reopening US schools a ‘priority’ — as it happened
South Carolina governor requests ban on any ‘door to door’ federal vaccination tactics
...President Joe Biden this month called for a renewed vaccination effort that would rely on volunteers like religious leaders, local medical staff and community organisations to help boost take-up rates....
July 9, 2021
News in-depthApple Inc
Doctors say it’s time Apple Watch ticked all the health boxes
...more deeply into medical wearables....
December 31, 2021
Haiti
Deaths mount after powerful earthquake strikes Haiti
...“Nippes and the surrounding area is rural with high rates of poverty and hunger,” said Cara Buck, acting country director in Haiti for the aid organisation Mercy Corps....
August 14, 2021
The Big Read
Genetic engineering: why some fear the next pandemic could be lab-made
...Marc Lipsitch is director of science at the CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics....
November 17, 2021
Coronavirus: One in five US states set records for Covid hospitalisations in August - as it happened
One in five US states set records for Covid hospitalisations in August
...An average of 12,151 patients with confirmed Covid-19 were admitted to US hospitals per day in the week ended August 30, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
September 1, 2021
Coronavirus economic impact
South Carolina governor sued over return to office mandate for state employees
...According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 167m doses have now been administered — more than any other country....
April 6, 2021
Covid-19 vaccines
Russia criticises Brazil’s rejection of Sputnik V vaccine
...On Tuesday, RDIF said: “The Gamaleya Center, which carries out strict quality control of all Sputnik V production sites, has confirmed that no replication-competent adenoviruses (RCA) were ever found in...
April 27, 2021
News in-depthUS society
Race and finance: the student loan trap
...Now Cannon is making better money as a medical coder, but owes $120,000 in student debt — more than when she started university a decade and a half ago....
December 21, 2021

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