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    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      News in-depthPfizer Inc
      Covid vaccine winners suffer reversal of fortune

      Companies have yet to provide investors with convincing post-pandemic strategies

      A montage of a nurse preparing a Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine, and the BioNTech and Moderna logos
    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      WHO approves second malaria jab for children

      Oxford university shot expected to deliver ‘sufficient’ supply for all at-risk infants

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    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      Nobel prizes
      Scientists whose work led to Covid mRNA vaccines win Nobel Prize

      Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman praised for role in ‘unprecedented rate of development’ of coronavirus jabs

      Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      Special ReportFT Health Centre
      FT Health: Future of Antibiotics

      The FT examines the causes and effects of an increasing global resistance to antibiotics: from the pressures doctors are under to prescribe them, to what new treatments are currently in the pipeline, as well as what role can the consumer play in reducing antibiotic use in the food chain

      Pharmacy cashier Silvia Carballo wearing a face mask and gloves counts bills at ‘Farmacia de la Estrella’ on April 08, 2020 in Buenos Aires
    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      Special ReportFT Health: Future of Antibiotics
      Ukraine infections show rising threat from antibiotic resistance

      Economic and political fallout from war distracts governments from health threats

      A paramedic measures the blood pressure of a wounded soldier at a mobile clinic
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      The best books of the week
      The infected blood scandal — and how it was allowed to happen

      Victims still await compensation from a case of shocking government indifference, professional malpractice and commercial greed

      A demonstrator wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the words ‘contaminated blood scandal’ — plus ‘They called us cheaper than chimps, thick, useful material, the great unwashed and virgin haemophiliacs’
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Novo Nordisk AS
      Prescriptions surge for Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and similar drugs

      Report shows 300% increase in demand for GLP-1 weight loss and diabetes drugs

      A scientist uses a culture flask and pipette in the cell therapy labs at the Novo Nordiskv research facilities in Malov, Denmark
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Anjana Ahuja
      ‘Inverse vaccines’ could turn autoimmune treatment upside down

      The latest findings build on experiments from over a century ago

      Ann Kiernan illustration of a woman getting ready to inject herself with a vaccine
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Covid-19 vaccines
      EU in talks with Moderna over new vaccine supply deal

      Brussels launches talks for mRNA jabs to augment existing contract with BioNTech/Pfizer

      A pharmacist administers a Covid jab made by Moderna
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Coronavirus treatment
      Covid antiviral drug linked to ‘transmissible’ mutations, research finds

      Big-selling molnupiravir treatment produces permanent mutations that can be passed from patient to patient

      An experimental COVID-19 treatment pill, called molnupiravir
    • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
      Camilla Cavendish
      Britain should lead in life sciences but NHS inertia is holding it back

      Biobank deadlock is a symptom of the UK’s ailing innovation sector

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    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Mental health
      Suppressing negative thoughts good for mental health, researchers find

      Cambridge university study contradicts common belief in psychology that it is better to talk about distressing ideas and memories

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    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      DeepMind uses AI to predict harmful genetic mutations in humans

      First example of artificial intelligence helping to accelerate diagnosis of diseases caused by genetic variants

      An artist’s illustration of how artificial intelligence can predict patterns in biology
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      Coronavirus
      WHO chief pushes China for ‘full access’ to solve Covid’s origins

      Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says health body is ready to send second mission as Omicron variants drive rise in cases

      Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      FT MagazineTim Harford
      The art of making good mistakes

      Neither organisations nor people can learn from their errors if they deny mistakes ever happened

    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Special Report
      FT Health: Communicable Diseases

      Climate change helps the spread of infectious diseases. Plus: rise in fungal infections highlights risks of antimicrobial resistance; Sydney shows how to almost eliminate HIV transmission; wait goes on for effective Long Covid treatments

      a tiger mosquito on a person’s skin
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Special ReportFT Health: Communicable Diseases
      Wait goes on for effective long Covid treatments

      Unlike the vaccine race, there is limited funding to treat a condition that is often debilitating

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    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Special ReportFT Health: Communicable Diseases
      The microbiome: a benign infection to help keep disease at bay

      Huge resources devoted to examining links with illness

      A pair of hands holding a box of vials
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Special ReportFT Health: Communicable Diseases
      Sydney’s HIV success shows way for others

      Experts say joint effort by clinicians, activists and politicians to deploy preventive tools shows how effective they can be

      An elderly patient sits on her bed at the community hospital
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Special ReportFT Health: Communicable Diseases
      Lessons not learnt from Covid-19

      Policymakers are failing to address the likelihood of another pandemic

      A woman leaves notes below photos of people who died of Covid-19
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
      We need transformational change to be ready for the next pandemic

      Leaders must treat these risks as existential — one of very few threats that can change the world in days

      Mothers bring their sick children for treatment at a hospital
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Special ReportFT Health: Communicable Diseases
      In charts: Threat from infectious diseases eases across the world

      Illnesses such as cancer and heart disease supplant likes of HIV

    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Special ReportFT Health: Communicable Diseases
      Rise in fungal infections illustrates risks of antimicrobial resistance

      Drug resistance is not just a problem with bacteria

      A microscopic image of a yeast that causes infections
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      LexModerna
      Moderna: searching for a second act after Covid Premium content

      Despite progress on a flu jab, the biotech group will be lossmaking for the next three years

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    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Moderna
      Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine shows promising results

      Trial finds latest version elicited better immune response than existing jabs

      A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine
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