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WPP PLC
Ogilvy forms health influencer unit to target ‘new frontier’ in marketing
...That is problematic given the amount of contested information and conspiracy theories about medicine and health services that is posted online, for example by members of the “anti-vaccine” movement....
April 23, 2024
Anna-Maria Volkmann
The ‘gender health gap’ shortens lives and costs billions
...The evidence is clear, and the gender health gap’s impact — both financially and in terms of human suffering — is shocking....
April 24, 2024
FT Live
US Pharma and Biotech Summit
Strategies for innovation, pricing and access
Thursday, 16 MayNew York, NY, USA
National Health Service
Rishi Sunak falls short of pledge to cut NHS waiting lists in England
...Professor Sir Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, said Thursday’s figures demonstrated “how the NHS is working flat out to recover services and bring down waiting times for patients,...
April 11, 2024
Special ReportFuture of AI
Healthcare professionals demonstrate immunity to AI
...“AI is not perfect; and, in malpractice, you want to sue a human.”...
March 26, 2024
FT Magazine
Ovaries are an enigma that could unlock human lifespan
...Before she went on stage, she discussed the plan with the men at her table, directors of health agencies from around the world....
February 1, 2024
The Big Read
The costly, controversial outsourcing of NHS mental health services
...A review of mental health services in 2016 found that these placements tend to be more costly and harmful to patients than using local NHS services....
January 8, 2024
FT Live
Global Pharma and Biotech Summit
Driving life sciences innovation in a disrupted world
Tuesday, 5 NovemberIn-Person & Online Conference
Labour Party UK
Labour shadow justice secretary defends UK’s membership of ECHR
...The Tories have also attacked him over the handling of the case of sexual predator Jimmy Savile by the Crown Prosecution Service when Starmer was director of public prosecutions....
April 21, 2024
Investments
Directors’ Deals: PHP head seeks healthy return
...Primary Health Properties’ boss has snapped up £69,000 of shares in the hospital and primary care centre developer and landlord ahead of his retirement at the end of this month....
April 19, 2024
ReviewTheatre
The Human Body, Donmar Warehouse review — postwar Britain and the birth of the NHS on stage
...The Human Body is one of several new plays — including Nye at the National Theatre — reminding us how and why the now beleaguered National Health Service was born....
February 28, 2024
FT Magazine
The loneliness cure
...At Headspace, Nyborg met Megan Jones Bell, now clinical director of mental health at Google, and one of Nyborg’s most active angel investors and advisers....
April 5, 2024
National Health Service
AI kettles and fridges reduce hospital readmissions in NHS pilot
...Adrian McCourt, managing director of the Onward Care service, said the pilot had supported about 140 people at home for 12 weeks after they were discharged from hospital....
December 27, 2023
Medical science
Brain organoids target rare neurological disorder
...“The development of models that can better replicate human diseases and accurately predict human responses promises to improve the outcomes of drug-development programmes,” said Silvia Velasco, an associate...
April 24, 2024
LexMedical science
Neurotech start-ups will not give rise to superhumans Premium content
...The idea of using hardware to detect and decode brain activity and transmit it to an external device is not new. The first invasive implant in a human took place in the late 1990s....
April 6, 2024
Letter
Letter: Afghan human rights deserve our attention too
...Wolfgang Danspeckgruber Founding Director, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, US...
April 3, 2024
Letter
Letter: Society is too quick to see unhappiness as a mental health issue
...Most damningly, reframing day-to-day distress as a “mental health issue” shifts responsibility from toxic, pathogenic political orders which generate most human suffering, and on to individuals who are exhorted...
March 8, 2024
FT Live
Future of AI
Igniting a new era of innovation and investment
Wednesday, 6 NovemberLondon. UK
Dementia
Alzheimer’s was passed between humans in now-banned procedure, study finds
...Scientists have shed new light on how Alzheimer’s spreads through the brain and found the first evidence of transmission between people, via a now-banned human growth hormone....
January 29, 2024
News updates from March 12: US inflation rises to 3.2%; White House warns Israel against ‘smashing into Rafah’
MPs launch probe into health risks from abandoned metal mines
...Crabb added that the Committee would investigate the “impact of metal mine pollution on human health, plans for remediation, the information available to the public, and whether existing regulations and...
March 12, 2024
Health
England has highest rates of child alcohol consumption, international study finds
...Dr Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, warned that alcohol consumption among young people had been normalised around the world and posed “a serious public health threat”....
April 25, 2024
Non-Fiction
Can we really live forever?
...This illustrates one of Scott’s key points: the economic dividend of longer, healthier lives is potentially enormous, with lower health and care costs and greater productivity....
March 26, 2024
Disease control and prevention
Scientists develop simple test to boost cancer detection in poorer countries
...“There are costs — human and economic — associated with overtreatment as well and one needs to consider the diagnostic pathway as a whole.”...
April 22, 2024
Scientific research
‘Shrinking’ talent pool threatens health progress, warns science chief
...She was previously director of the US National Institutes of Health Center for Human Immunology....
March 3, 2024
The Big Read
The next pandemic is coming. Will we be ready?
...In South Africa, biotech company Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines will, once licensed, be able to produce about 50mn doses of an mRNA jab in a year in the event of a new pandemic, says its managing director...
April 4, 2024
Genomics
Ancient European migration patterns linked to modern-day disease risks
...This created a “genomic boundary” on the continent that ran from the Black Sea to the Baltic and lasted for thousands of years, with enduring consequences for public health and disease prevalence....
January 10, 2024
Environment
MPs launch probe into health risks from abandoned Welsh mines
...Lead is particularly dangerous to humans and there is no level of exposure known to be without harmful effects, according to the World Health Organization....
March 12, 2024
Biotech
UK biotech signs $1bn deal to develop liver disease drugs
...The company’s work to date has involved analysing thousands of donated human livers to develop an understanding of the causes of disease, and studying whether making changes to RNA — a vital molecule for...
April 22, 2024

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