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Disease control and prevention
Three health foundations tackle biggest disease threats in $300mn deal
...The three largest charitable foundations focused on public health are to join forces for the first time to tackle climate change’s impact, infectious diseases and measures to improve nutrition and wellbeing...
May 6, 2024
Special ReportHealth and Climate Change
Lyme disease bites as ticks gain ground in US
...Ben Beard, deputy director of the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and a co-author of the assessment, says: “We’ve seen a huge increase in tick-borne...
April 29, 2024
FT Live
Strategies for Trading Interest Rate Volatility
Understanding the rate environment and capitalising on fluctuations
Thursday, 20 June71 Basinghall Avenue, London EC2V, UK
Special ReportFuture of Healthcare
New medicine could prevent disease before it begins — but at a cost
...Brad Ringeisen, executive director of the IGI, has identified links between gut inflammation and Alzheimer’s disease....
May 3, 2024
Special ReportHealth and Climate Change
Deforestation opens paths for disease spread from animals to humans
...Three-quarters of new or emerging diseases that infect humans originate in animals, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
April 29, 2024
Live news: Tesla’s China market share shrinks in April
Moderna’s second vaccine hit by approval delay
...Moderna is also awaiting a decision from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee later this month, which is key to guarantee the widespread distribution of the jab....
May 10, 2024
Pharmaceuticals sector
‘Pfizer for All’ consumer platform aims to provide post-Covid boost
...The platform will offer a “downloadable mobile application for providing medical information” as well as “mail order pharmacy services” and “diagnostic test kits . . . for use in disease screening and detection...
May 12, 2024
FT Live
US Pharma and Biotech Summit
Strategies for innovation, pricing and access
Thursday, 16 MayNew York, NY, USA
Special ReportHealth and Climate Change
Climate change highlights risk of malaria resurgence
...Helen Jamet, deputy director for vector control at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, also points to the displacement of the type of mosquito transmitting malaria, with the emergence — in south Asia and...
April 29, 2024
Special ReportFuture of Healthcare
‘Potent’ antibiotic drug boosts fight against superbugs
...Crab, which causes life-threatening illnesses in hospital patients, is classed as a priority concern by the WHO and an urgent threat by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
February 15, 2024
Indian business & finance
Private equity targets India’s healthcare sector with record investments
...policy at the Center for Global Development think-tank in Washington.Yet Modi’s shift to expand insurance to cover private care for poor Indians “is not a panacea” and is “enormously complicated”, Jain said...
May 9, 2024
Special ReportFuture of Healthcare
The changing picture of disease — living longer may not mean living healthier
...Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, has warned that getting back on track to meet global targets for curbing obesity will take the “work of governments and communities, supported by evidence-based...
May 3, 2024
Special ReportHealth and Climate Change
Climate change increases chances of zoonotic disease ‘spillover’
...Another key question for infectious diseases experts is how the biology of viruses and pathogens is changing as they emerge in new regions of the world....
April 29, 2024
Disease control and prevention
Bird flu outbreak in US cattle sparks fears over next global health crisis
...Studies suggested these jabs offered “good cross-protection” against avian flu circulating in cattle, Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said this...
May 3, 2024
OutlookPatti Waldmeir
Syphilis: an age-old disease stalking modern America
...In newborns, “congenital” syphilis — which can cause miscarriages, stillbirths, or life-long medical problems — was up more than tenfold between 2012 and 2022, according to the US Centres for Disease Control...
April 1, 2024
Covid-19 vaccines
The great pandemic vaccine bubble, charted
...Stocks like Pfizer, J&J and Sanofi are diversified enough for falling expectations around Covid vaccines to not matter overly....
May 8, 2024
Italy
Italian troops deployed against wild boar to defend ham industry
...No vaccine exists to control its spread....
May 7, 2024
FT Live
Global Pharma and Biotech Summit
Driving life sciences innovation in a disrupted world
Tuesday, 5 NovemberIn-Person & Online Conference
Special ReportHealth and Climate Change
Doubled estimate of fatal fungal infections sharpens scientific focus
...The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) lists several ways in which environmental change could promote the spread of pathogenic fungi....
April 29, 2024
Special ReportHealth and Climate Change
Climate change risks fuelling antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’
...for Global Development, a Washington-based think-tank....
April 29, 2024
Anjana Ahuja
How worried should we be about the return of bird flu?
...The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the risk to public health is low but it is preparing for the possibility that the flu becomes more transmissible between people....
May 1, 2024
Disease control and prevention
Prostate cancer rise sparks calls for overhaul of testing
...“Research shows that the PSA test, when used for screening in men with no symptoms, is inaccurate,” said Naser Turabi, director of evidence and implementation at the charity Cancer Research UK, who was not...
April 4, 2024
Biotech
UK biotech signs $1bn deal to develop liver disease drugs
...New ways of tackling late-stage liver disease could delay the need for transplants, currently the only effective treatment....
April 22, 2024
Medical science
Whooping cough resurgence leads to death of five babies as vaccination rates fall
...Professor Sir Stephen Powis, national medical director for the NHS in England, added that it was “vital” families come forward and get vaccinated....
May 9, 2024
Disease control and prevention
Political tensions weaken battle against biggest diseases, warns health charity chief
...“Disease X”....
May 2, 2024
Medical science
Prostate cancer test fails to detect some aggressive forms, study shows
...There is currently no national screening programme for the disease....
April 6, 2024
News in-depthDementia
Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi falls short of blockbuster status in faltering US rollout
...that promises to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease....
April 22, 2024
Starbucks Corp
Starbucks union group ends campaign for three board seats
...The Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of labour groups that had nominated three people for Starbucks’ board, on Tuesday said the company and the Workers United union had agreed to work together to...
March 5, 2024

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