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News in-depthChinese politics & policy
China sidelines its once venerated central bank
...“One of the biggest casualties of the new financial architecture is the diminished status of the PBoC,” said George Magnus, an associate at Oxford university’s China Centre....
December 25, 2023
FT MagazineGillian Tett
Long Covid and learning from past trauma
...The Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation recently published a study in Nature that analysed the medical records of 140,000 people in the Veterans Affairs health system who had contracted Covid in 2020...
August 30, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
The Big Read
What is behind the unexpected decline in dementia?
...For Albert Hofman, who chairs the department of epidemiology at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, the research points to one conclusion: “The absolute risk [of developing dementia] is lower now...
October 30, 2023
FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities
What’s on in NYC: a month-by-month guide to 2024
...where Parker worked and lived from upcoming artists and jazz veterans....
January 30, 2024
US society
US police debate shifts in the 3 years since murder of George Floyd
...Almost three-quarters of those surveyed told Pew Research Center last year that funding for police departments should stay the same or increase....
May 25, 2023
The Big Read
The environmental cost of single-use vapes
...The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says it strongly encourages consumers to dispose of electrical waste at local recycling centres or return them to retailers....
March 7, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
The Big Read
China’s Covid generation: the surging inequality behind Xi’s U-turn
...Dr George Hu, chair of the mental health department at Shanghai United Family Pudong Hospital, has been on the frontline of psychiatric care in China during the pandemic and says researchers are only “just...
January 3, 2023
UK Budget
UK Budget 2023: the chancellor’s speech in full
...We will provide a package worth over £30m to increase the capacity of the Office for Veterans’ Affairs, support veterans with injuries returning from their service and increase the availability of veteran...
March 15, 2023
FT Magazine
Ron DeSantis is Donald Trump with brains and without the drama
...“He’s really good at ‘othering’ people,” said Mac Stipanovich, a veteran Florida Republican activist who was involved in the 2000 recount that handed the presidency to George W Bush, but has grown disgusted...
October 20, 2022
Lunch with the FT
Jon Stewart: ‘Ain’t nothing as agile as authoritarian regimes’
...It was an attempt to get the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs on the record about the issue, setting off a chain of events that — Stewart and fellow campaigners hoped — would lead to new legislation...
October 28, 2022
Colin Powell
Former US secretary of state Colin Powell dies of Covid complications
...We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.”...
October 18, 2021
Coronavirus
California and New York City to mandate vaccines for public workers
...The Department of Veterans’ Affairs became the first federal agency on Monday to issue a vaccine mandate, requiring all of its medical employees to get a jab within eight weeks....
July 26, 2021
Coronavirus: Starbucks, Mattel and Big Tech earnings ride post-pandemic recovery - as it happened
News you might have missed …
...The US Department of Veterans Affairs will require its medical staff to get the Covid-19 shot, becoming the first federal agency to announce a vaccination mandate for employees....
July 26, 2021
US police
Ex-officer who shot Daunte Wright to face manslaughter charge
...Potter, 48, resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department on Tuesday, two days after killing Daunte Wright, 20, during a traffic stop. Tim Gannon, the department’s chief, also resigned....
April 14, 2021
US race relations
Jury begins deliberations in Derek Chauvin murder trial
...Testifying on behalf of the prosecution, pulmonologist Martin Tobin and former Hennepin County medical examiner Lindsey Thomas both testified Floyd died from lack of oxygen....
April 19, 2021
FT Live
Business of Football Summit
The global gathering of leaders in football and finance
Wednesday, 26 February 2025In-Person & Digital | London
George Floyd
Derek Chauvin convicted of murdering George Floyd
...A crowd grew outside the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis ahead of the announcement....
April 21, 2021
Letter
Letter: World leaders urged to boost vaccine availability
...Affairs, US Department of Health and Human Services Pascal LamyPresident of the Paris Peace Forum and former director-general of the WTO Jack LeslieChair, Weber Shandwick Gary LinekerEnglish former professional...
August 31, 2021
The Big Read
England’s reopening: ‘The world is looking at us with disbelief’
...Yet some Israeli experts, such as Eyal Leshem of the Sheba Medical Center, believes the country’s health ministry is being too cautious and called the approach in England “reasonable”....
July 9, 2021
The Big Read
‘People are on pins and needles’: the Chauvin trial and race in America
...The exact medical circumstances of Floyd’s death are another key point of the trial. The medical examiner ruled that he died of “cardiopulmonary arrest”....
April 11, 2021
US opioid epidemic
Opioid crisis haunts frontrunner for top job at US drugs regulator
...But multiple reviews by the health department inspector general have found companies were not providing the FDA with the data it needed to be able to monitor the use of such drugs....
February 4, 2021
FT Magazine
‘I just feel broken’: doctors, mental health and the pandemic
...In the mid-2000s, when soldiers began returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hired psychologists both to support the service personnel and to unpack the...
March 25, 2021
Sheldon Adelson
Casino magnate and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson dies aged 87
...Last week, Adelson took medical leave from his role as chairman and chief executive of Las Vegas Sands for treatment of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma....
January 12, 2021
News in-depthUS politics & policy
How the far-right fell into line behind Donald Trump
...Daryl Johnson, a counter-terrorism expert at the Department of Homeland Security, had warned on the potential for renewed rightwing violence in an April 2009 report....
January 19, 2021
US opioid epidemic
Opioid maker Purdue Pharma agrees $8bn US settlement
...Another email quoted in the documents, from 2014, cited Jonathan Sackler saying: “[W]e’ve taken a fantastic amount of money out of the business.”...
October 21, 2020
News in-depthCoronavirus
Houston doctors sound alarm as Texas leads new US virus wave
...At Texas Medical Center — a campus of dozens of hospitals and medical facilities that describes itself as “the largest medical city in the world” — the number of Covid patients in hospital is 47 per cent...
June 24, 2020

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