Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • China stops buying liquefied gas from US
    • Yuval Noah Harari: Trump’s world of rival fortresses
    • Non-doms quit London private members’ clubs to avoid UK tax links
    • Harvard balks at Trump administration’s demand for foreign students’ data
    • Trump ratchets up pressure on Fed chair Powell to cut rates
  • US
    Sections
    • US Home
    • US Economy
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
    Most Read
    • China stops buying liquefied gas from US
    • Yuval Noah Harari: Trump’s world of rival fortresses
    • Harvard balks at Trump administration’s demand for foreign students’ data
    • Trump ratchets up pressure on Fed chair Powell to cut rates
    • Could Trump fire the Federal Reserve chair?
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • China stops buying liquefied gas from US
    • Is there life after banking?
    • Trading in two stocks surged before Trump family appointments announced
    • Number of UK consumers streaming sports illegally has gone ‘through the roof’, police say
    • Astronomers claim strongest evidence yet of extraterrestrial life
  • Tech
    Sections
    • Tech Home
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
    Most Read
    • Nvidia chief Jensen Huang flies to Beijing for talks
    • OpenAI’s mind-boggling growth masks challenges
    • UK bans EVs from some military bases over Chinese spy fears
    • Google ‘wilfully’ monopolised online advertising market, US judge rules
    • Tech industry fears Trump’s trade war will hamper US AI ‘dominance’
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Monetary Policy Radar
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    Most Read
    • China stops buying liquefied gas from US
    • Trading in two stocks surged before Trump family appointments announced
    • Is the world losing faith in the almighty US dollar?
    • Few US CEOs bought the dip as tariffs rattled markets
    • US rare earth champion faces trade war test after tariffs halt China sales
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • Yuval Noah Harari: Trump’s world of rival fortresses
    • Tariffs ignore the reality of global tech supply chains
    • Americans, it’s time to move to Europe
    • OpenAI’s mind-boggling growth masks challenges
    • Donald Trump’s gift to globalisation
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
    Most Read
    • Few US CEOs bought the dip as tariffs rattled markets
    • Three ideas to energise British tech
    • A food tour of the Jersey Shore with Hailee Catalano, the internet’s favourite cooking teacher
    • Bonuses surge for top traders at EU investment firms after cap is lifted
    • Are your team ‘playing you’?
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Puzzles
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • Is there life after banking?
    • Americans, it’s time to move to Europe
    • Is there such a thing as a British video game?
    • ‘A reliable, old-school Italian’ — Jay Rayner reviews Da Mario, Kensington
    • The value of institutional memory
  • HTSI
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • US
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

Disease control and prevention

  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Eli Lilly & Co
    Eli Lilly’s new obesity pill lowers blood sugar and aids weight loss

    Promising late-stage trial results lift US pharmaceutical group’s shares almost 15%

    Eli Lilly’s logo
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Pfizer Inc
    Pfizer to halt development of closely watched weight-loss drug

    US pharmaceutical group says patient in study experienced ‘potential drug-induced liver injury’

    Pfizer sign at the company’s headquarters
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Drugs research
    NHS signs deal with Scancell in ambitious skin cancer trial

    Move comes as government seeks to boost UK’s standing as drugs research leader

    Skin cancer cell
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Neurotechnology
    Scientists recreate brain circuit in lab for first time

    Research breakthrough promises new treatments for severe pain

    Microscope image of the ‘assembloid’ that recreates the brain’s pain pathway in a bundle of nerve cells
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    The Big Read
    How to restore trust in doctors in an age of misinformation

    Healthcare workers and officials say falsehoods and conspiracy theories cost lives and are exacerbating inequalities

    Montage of images of a doctor in scrubs and face mask and a giant syringe against a background of an anti-vax protest
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    UK public policy
    High-risk UK science agency seeks to boost healthy life and tackle bio threats

    Labour wants the Advanced Research and Invention Agency to drive innovation and growth

    Ilan Gur
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A dark hour for American science

    Other countries have a chance to attract US talent driven out by Trump’s policies

    Employees work in a lab focused on cancer vaccine research at the Moderna headquarters in Cambridge
  • Saturday, 5 April, 2025
    FT Magazine
    Biohacker Bryan Johnson: ‘The enemy is no longer each other. The enemy is death’

    The multimillionaire wants to create a religion, a sovereign fund and a nation state by preaching his Don’t Die philosophy

    Portrait of a man with short brown hair and blue eyes, looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression, set against a dark background
  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
    Top US vaccine official resigns over Kennedy’s ‘misinformation and lies’

    Peter Marks says ‘truth and transparency are not desired’ by health secretary as measles outbreak spreads

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Eli Lilly & Co
    EU regulator declines approval for Eli Lilly’s new Alzheimer’s drug

    European Medicines Agency says risks of potentially fatal side effects from donanemab outweigh benefits

    Eli Lilly’s headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana, US
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Scientific research
    ‘Exodus’ of clinical researchers sparks concern over future of UK healthcare

    Lack of incentives is driving down the number of clinical researchers in Britain

    Dr Tamara Elliott
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Funding cuts threaten ‘success story’ of efforts to combat HIV/Aids

    Steep reduction in aid spending by US and Europe could drive infections and deaths to early 2000s levels, research warns

    A scientific officer works in the research lab
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Medical science
    Scientists unveil tiny robot to help detect and treat bowel cancer

    Machine makes 3D scans of the digestive system, which could improve early diagnosis for the second-deadliest cancer

    A miniature gut explorer robot being held
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Anjana Ahuja
    An ominous shadow falls over mRNA technology

    Once researchers begin wondering whether their government might pull the rug from under them, the damage is done

    Andy Carter illustration of a politician pulling the curtain closed , blocking out the potential bright future in mRNA research and scientific advancements.
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    Medical science
    UK detects bird flu in sheep for the first time

    Authorities play down risks to livestock but urge precautions to avoid mass outbreaks seen in US

    A close-up image of a sheep’s face
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
    News in-depthAbu Dhabi
    Abu Dhabi’s quest to turn its DNA ‘gold mine’ into big business

    Project backed by national security chief Sheikh Tahnoon aims to commercialise mammoth Emirati genetic database

    A scientist wearing a glove holds a vial. Background is Iranian flag and genome sequence.
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Microsoft Corp
    Microsoft teams up with AI start-up to simulate brain reasoning

    New artificial intelligence learns from real-world experience rather than pre-existing data

    Visualisation of a midway stage in the recipe for building olfactory bulb digital brain tissue
  • Saturday, 15 March, 2025
    FT Magazine
    The dramatic afterlife of the Aids crisis

    As attitudes to the disease have evolved over the years, so has the art we create about it

    A dramatic stage performance featuring a man grieving over a hospital bed, a woman in a wheelchair, and two masked medical professionals, set against a backdrop of bold newspaper-like headlines about AIDS
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Food & Beverage
    Novo Nordisk Foundation’s obesity head works as paid adviser to chocolate maker Ferrero

    Professor Arne Astrup is also involved in project to change widely-accepted definition of ultra-processed food

    Packages of Ferrero Rocher chocolates on a store shelf
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    US politics & policy
    White House withdraws nomination of vaccine-sceptic pick to head health agency

    U-turn on candidacy of Dave Weldon to lead Centers for Disease Control a rare setback for Donald Trump

    Dave Weldon
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Novo Nordisk AS
    Novo Nordisk shares fall on latest trial results for new obesity drug

    Participants with type 2 diabetes had an average weight loss of 15.7 per cent after 68 weeks on CagriSema

    Vials of medicine at Novo Nordisk’s plant
  • Sunday, 9 March, 2025
    Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC
    Hikma races to launch generic versions of blockbuster obesity drugs

    Pharma group looks to take advantage as Wegovy and Ozempic start to go off patent next year

    A production line of Wegovy injection pens in Denmark
  • Saturday, 8 March, 2025
    ObituaryJames Harrison
    James Harrison, blood donor, 1936-2025

    The railway worker who found his mission and saved the lives of more than 2mn babies

    James Harrison surrounded by family members
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    Special ReportThe Future of Digital Healthcare
    Networked devices help head off medical woes and speed recovery

    Digital technologies are helping to guide early clinical interventions and assessments of treatment

    A healthcare worker shows a patient their health data on a tablet while the patient holds a medical assessment device
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    Special ReportThe Future of Digital Healthcare
    Protein project uses AI to boost disease treatment

    UK initiative to harness big biological data sets and look deeper into how the human body works and malfunctions

    A lab technician in protective gear works on a computer in a modern laboratory filled with scientific equipment
Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareersSuppliers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

Tools

PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT Live EventsFT ForumsFT Leaders Academy

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2025. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Edition:International
UK
Subscribe for full access

Top sections

  • Home
  • World
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
  • US
    • US Economy
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Monetary Policy Radar
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Puzzles
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports

FT recommends

  • Alphaville
  • FT Edit
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • Visual and data journalism
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Schools
  • FT Live Events
  • FT Forums
  • FT Leaders Academy
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • FT Digital Edition
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In