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  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    How can Covid-19 affect the human brain?

    Scientists are trying to understand the cause of neurological effects and whether symptoms will be long-lasting

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Covid-19 vaccines
    African leaders urge global vaccine body to buy locally made Covid jabs

    Plea comes as continent’s top vaccine production plant faces uncertain future due to collapse in demand

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    News in-depthCoronavirus pandemic
    Residents and guards suffer on Beijing’s zero-Covid front line

    China’s strict policy puts citizens at mercy of unpredictable isolation orders as security camps outside

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    US to share Covid vaccine technology with poorer nations, says Biden

    The president announced the move at a virtual summit hosted by the US, Belize, Germany, Indonesia and Senegal

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    North Korea
    Kim Jong Un orders lockdowns as North Korea confirms first Covid cases

    Isolated country has not vaccinated population, stoking worries about potential damage of outbreak

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    FT MagazineLeo Lewis
    These electric chopsticks cut your salt intake. No, really

    Japanese people consume about twice the amount of salt recommended. Could a new gadget one day help?

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Anjana Ahuja
    Clues but few answers in the childhood hepatitis mystery

    Lockdowns, adenoviruses, Covid and exposure to dogs have all been blamed for new cases around the world

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    WHO chief warns that China’s zero-Covid strategy is not sustainable

    New modelling underscores country’s vulnerability because of faltering vaccination drive

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Covid-19 vaccines
    BioNTech beats forecasts on back of Covid vaccine demand

    German biotech maintains guidance but prepares for fall in sales because of jab oversupply

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Coronavirus far deadlier than official count, WHO estimate suggests

    Health body says 15mn people died by the end of 2021, nearly three times official death toll

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    ‘Stay vigilant’: no let-up in North Korea’s two-year Covid lockout

    Pyongyang claims to have avoided a big outbreak but experts warn its luck will eventually run out

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Moderna
    Moderna targets autumn release for Omicron vaccine

    US drugmaker says demand for ‘bivalent booster’ could lift jab sales in second half of 2022

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Coronavirus treatment
    UK accused of leaving Covid immunocompromised ‘out to dry’

    Vulnerable people feel they are forgotten because of government’s ‘living with Covid’ strategy

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Anjana Ahuja
    Beware malaria risk from efforts to cool the planet

    The supposedly magic fix of solar geoengineering may have a dangerously uneven impact across the world

  • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Bill Gates calls for global surveillance team to spot pandemic threats

    The philanthropist urges world leaders to increase spending to improve preparedness for health threats

  • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Africa’s top Covid vaccine plant faces uncertain future after production halted

    The problems threaten plans to produce 60 per cent of all vaccines administered in Africa locally by 2040

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    AstraZeneca PLC
    AstraZeneca sales beat forecasts on Covid jab demand

    Revenue rises 60% as Alexion acquisition and its rare diseases medicines boost drugmaker’s earnings

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Scientists puzzle over Covid pandemic link to child hepatitis cases

    Experts are racing to find the cause of an unexplained illness diagnosed in nearly 200 youngsters

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Climate change poses pandemic threat by accelerating animal virus spread, study warns

    Hotspots for viral transmission among animals are projected to overlap with densely populated urban areas

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Special Report
    The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies

    The FT’s third annual ranking of the region’s businesses by revenue growth rate. Plus: US medtech takes the top spot; Calgary tech scene rivals energy sector; ecommerce giant aims to ‘democratise finance’; why LatAm risks squandering pandemic gains

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Special ReportThe Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
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    The medtech muscles in on overactive bladder market with its neuro-stimulator treatment device

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
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    Preventable — how we can stop the next world-changing pandemic

    Could politicians have responded better to Covid? Public health expert Devi Sridhar is both prescient and scathing

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Moderna
    Moderna investors reject proposal to transfer vaccine tech

    Two top-10 shareholders say distribution problems not supply is reason for slower vaccination rates in low-income countries

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    UK government’s Covid care home policies were unlawful, High Court rules

    Discharging hospital patients into population of vulnerable elderly without testing was ‘irrational’, say judges

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    GlaxoSmithKline PLC
    GSK beats forecasts on back of Covid and shingles treatments

    UK drugmaker points to ‘good momentum’ as sales rise by a third in ‘landmark year’

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