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News in-depthHealthcare
Wealthier adults drive sharp rise in demand for ADHD drugs
...The Department of Health and Social Care has pledged to spend £2.3bn a year to expand mental health services in England by spring 2024....
February 3, 2024
Jayasree K Iyer
There are far too many avoidable deaths in childbirth
...In some cases, outdated attitudes stand in the way of better maternal care....
January 17, 2024
FT Live
US Pharma and Biotech Summit
Strategies for innovation, pricing and access
Thursday, 16 MayNew York, NY, USA
Emily Jackson
The UK’s assisted dying debate is reaching a tipping point
...London School of Economics With Jersey and the Isle of Man preparing to legalise assisted dying, and a bill due to come before the Scottish parliament, it is hardly surprising that the House of Commons Health...
March 9, 2024
Johnson & Johnson Co Inc
Johnson & Johnson buys device maker Shockwave for $13.1bn
...J&J’s medtech division has outstripped the growth of the company’s drugs and diagnostics business, generating $30.4bn in sales last year, or 35 per cent of group revenues....
April 5, 2024
French politics
Macron backs ‘right to die’ law
...According to UK advocacy group Dignity in Dying, about 200mn people worldwide have legal access to some form of assisted dying....
March 11, 2024
News in-depthSocial affairs
Support for change in law on assisted dying grows across the UK
...Dr Gillian Wright, a former palliative care registrar and member of the Our Duty of Care, a campaign group opposed to what it refers to as assisted suicide, has argued that societies should be focused on...
April 6, 2024
FT Live
Global Pharma and Biotech Summit
Driving life sciences innovation in a disrupted world
Tuesday, 5 NovemberIn-Person & Online Conference
The Big Read
The costly, controversial outsourcing of NHS mental health services
...Three of the biggest for-profit mental health providers — Priory Group, Elysium Healthcare and Cygnet Health — account for around 30 per cent of the mental health market in the UK, while the NHS accounts...
January 8, 2024
AstraZeneca PLC
AstraZeneca strikes $2.4bn deal for radiotherapy biotech Fusion
...“Between 30 and 50 per cent of patients with cancer today receive radiotherapy at some point during treatment, and the acquisition of Fusion furthers our ambition to transform this aspect of care with next-generation...
March 19, 2024
National Health Service
NHS strains set to drive private health insurance growth
...James Daley, managing director of Fairer Finance, a consumer group that rates and reviews financial services providers, said the growth in private health insurance was likely to continue, although he described...
January 12, 2024
Special ReportFuture of AI
Healthcare professionals demonstrate immunity to AI
...AI has the potential to significantly transform employment in many aspects of healthcare — from basic research to clinical care, patient monitoring and medical administration....
March 26, 2024
Brazil
Brazil rolls out dengue vaccines as cases rise sharply
...The focus now is on care to reduce mortality.”...
February 25, 2024
House & Home
Whose house is it, anyway? The growing problem of inheritance
...A recent British Medical Journal article said: “Abuse of older people is a global public health problem . . ....
March 8, 2024
ReviewNon-Fiction
The Anxious Generation — should phones be taken away from teens?
...In the UK, for example, spending on children’s mental health services fell over the five years after 2009....
April 4, 2024
Drug prices
Rare genetic disease therapy becomes world’s most expensive drug at $4.25mn
...The most severe form of MLD causes children in late infancy to lose all motor function and deteriorate to a vegetative state, eventually requiring round-the-clock intensive care....
March 20, 2024
News updates from April 16: Powell says inflation fight will take ‘longer than expected’; China GDP jumps 5.3%
UnitedHealth swings to loss after February cyber attack
...UnitedHealth has provided more than $6bn in advance funding and interest-free loans to support care providers, it said....
April 16, 2024
FT Live
Building an AI-First Organisation
How can business leaders use AI to drive value?
Thursday, 25 AprilHôtel Lutetia, Paris, France
Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
Banks need to wake up to powers of attorney demands
..., the consumer group. It makes for interesting — if worrying — reading....
February 21, 2024
Artificial intelligence
AI promises to transform diagnosis of heart disease
...The goal of the AI stethoscope, designed by US company Eko Health, is to close these gaps and save the lives of heart patients who end up needing emergency care in hospital....
December 29, 2023
UK Budget 2024
Chancellor sets out £3.4bn plan to boost NHS productivity
...Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health groups across the country, said the £3.4bn additional investment in technology over the next parliament had the potential...
March 6, 2024
Health
Advances in UK cancer survival fall sharply
...The Department of Health and Social Care said: “We are working to make access to cancer services faster and simpler....
February 2, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
UN officials call for probe into reports of mass graves at Gaza hospitals
...However, aid agencies say the raids have all but destroyed the enclave’s health infrastructure and left huge numbers of Gazans with no access to medical care....
April 23, 2024
Brooke Masters
The business case for looking after staff mental health
...Stiff upper lip traditionalists may cringe, but encouraging self-care is smart business when human talent is still the most significant expense....
December 27, 2023
National Health Service
US tech group Palantir wins lucrative NHS data contract
...US data analytics group Palantir has secured an NHS England contract worth £330mn to develop a new patient data platform, the health service announced on Tuesday....
November 21, 2023
News in-depthReckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Fight, settle or split? How a $60mn damages verdict is piling pressure on Reckitt
...Shares in the group have fallen more than a quarter over the past year. The company’s push into baby formula through the acquisition of Mead Johnson is widely seen to have been a failure....
March 22, 2024
LexHealthcare costs
US healthcare: the Medicare gold rush is on Premium content
...CVS Health spent nearly $20bn to buy home-care provider Signify Health and primary care provider Oak Street Health. Even Amazon has waded in, buying primary-care operator One Medical for about $3.9bn....
December 5, 2023
Disease control and prevention
UK risks missing out on ‘golden age’ of drug discovery, cancer charity warns
...The UK government said in a statement: “Research and the life sciences are crucial in the fight against cancer, which is why we invest £1bn per year through the National Institute for Health and Care Research...
February 22, 2024

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