PATIENTS OUT OF TIME

Sunak exposed over long NHS queues in Tory seats

...In May 2010, the median waiting time for patients on the NHS was 5.5 weeks. The median as of February this year was 14.8 and two weeks worse or more in 59 Tory seats, the FT found....

April 25, 2024

Markets InsightToby Nangle

The hidden power of index providers

...A frenzy of activity saw almost a quarter of outstanding Tesla shares trade on the final day of the period, by which time its price had increased by 57 per cent....

April 9, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

Miranda Green

Zen and the art of the zoned-out commute

...pointed out, then this is a bad way to spend a high proportion of that time....

March 31, 2024

National Health Service

Share of patients hit by long NHS waits in England five times higher than decade ago

...The share of patients in England waiting longer than four hours for emergency care in hospitals was five times higher last year than 10 years ago, official figures show....

February 28, 2024

The Big Read

The costly, controversial outsourcing of NHS mental health services

...Spending on private “out of area” beds by NHS mental health trusts in England has reached record levels, and is 43 per cent higher than it was five years ago, according to Financial Times calculations....

January 8, 2024

Drug prices

Copycats take bite out of AbbVie’s best-selling Humira drug

...The insurer-owned benefit managers argue that these rebates are passed on to patients in the form of lower premiums, but they pocket some of the discount for themselves....

April 25, 2024

FT Live

Future of AI

Igniting a new era of innovation and investment

News in-depthDementia

Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi falls short of blockbuster status in faltering US rollout

...Instead, only about 5,600 patients had been approved for treatment by early April, according to a registry by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shared with the Financial Times....

April 22, 2024

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

Anna-Maria Volkmann

The ‘gender health gap’ shortens lives and costs billions

...In my research on fibromyalgia, an illness associated with debilitating pain and fatigue that affects mostly women, I have seen the credibility of patients’ experiences called into question more times than...

April 24, 2024

LexWomen in business

CEOs: time out of workforce widens gender gap Premium

...Time out of the workforce is the biggest, according to their analysis of 143,000 graduates’ careers in neighbouring Sweden....

November 25, 2023

The Big Read

The world’s broken market for medicines

...spun-out from Novartis last year that does not make the drug....

March 28, 2024

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI’s model all but matches doctors in assessing eye problems

...At the same time, researchers are grappling with how to manage serious risks, given the damage that false diagnoses can cause to patients....

April 17, 2024

Markets InsightWei Li

Making lemonade out of macro lemons

...There is no landing — we are just climbing out of a hole. There is a natural tendency to interpret inflation and growth as though we are in a typical business cycle but we are not....

December 11, 2023

Johnson & Johnson Co Inc

Johnson & Johnson buys device maker Shockwave for $13.1bn

...global standard of care for patients,” said Shockwave president and chief executive Doug Godshall....

April 5, 2024

Manica Balasegaram

Antibiotic resistance is the greatest threat to cancer patients

...Given that the number of clinical trials for new cancer drugs is at an all-time high, and with the vast majority of new drug treatments costing more than $283,000 in the US per patient per year, this trend...

February 1, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Asia

Optimising fund firm models for Asia’s ascent

Israel-Hamas war

Five patients dead after Israeli raid on Gaza hospital, officials say

...On Wednesday morning, al-Serr shared footage of an ICU patient who he said had just died “because they cut all the electricity”. The video could not be independently verified by the Financial Times....

February 16, 2024

US presidential election 2024

Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis running out of time to stop Donald Trump

...“In spite of all that they threw at us, everyone against us, we’ve got our ticket punched out of Iowa,” he said....

January 16, 2024

Live news: US secretly ships long-range missiles to Ukraine

Bernie Sanders to lead US Senate probe of Ozempic’s ‘outrageously high prices’

...In the letter, Sanders said the drugs “will not do any good for the millions of patients who cannot afford them”....

April 24, 2024

Novo Nordisk AS

Novo Nordisk in €1bn deal for RNA-based heart disease therapies

...Trial results published in November showed that Wegovy led to an 18 per cent decline in risk of death for patients with obesity and cardiovascular disease....

March 25, 2024

Liverpool Football Club

Jürgen Klopp calls time on Liverpool FC saying he has ‘run out of energy’

...Jürgen Klopp is to leave Liverpool FC at the end of the season after saying he has “run out of energy”, bringing the reign of one of the most successful managers in English football to a close....

January 26, 2024

Jennifer Dixon

An election manifesto for the NHS — and a healthy economy

...Weary staff urgently need changes that improve their working lives and free up their time to care for patients. If not, progress will stall....

April 18, 2024

Inside BusinessRichard Waters

Question of pay-off from AI hangs over Big Tech earnings

...The likely message from the tech companies is: be patient. The uptake of generative AI and impact on sales should start to become apparent later this year or in 2025....

April 18, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Israel withdraws from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza

...But the raid left much of al-Shifa a burnt-out shell....

April 1, 2024

Elaine Moore

Why we can’t stop staring at our own faces online

...Any asymmetry seems to be the wrong way round and so stands out. It’s something that smartphone makers and selfie-focused social networking company Snap figured out a long time ago....

April 21, 2024

Artificial intelligence

Hippocratic hits $500mn valuation as tech investors seek new bets in AI

...Hippocratic will use the chipmaker’s hardware to reduce the “latency” of AI agents, meaning they can respond in real time to patients....

March 18, 2024

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