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  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    The Big Read
    The rising threat of deadly diseases jumping from animals to humans

    Zoonotic pathogens very likely caused the last pandemic. Can we get better at halting them before the next one?

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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
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    NHS data shows mounting pressure from ‘quad-demic’ of viruses

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  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
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    Moderna, Pfizer, CureVac and Novavax register gains as health agency stresses risk to public ‘remains low’

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    Research adds to evidence that viral infections contribute to development of dementia

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  • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
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    The risks of operating included blindness, deafness, infection and stroke. Who would emerge on the other side, I wondered

  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
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    NHS data shows number of people in hospital with the illness has quadrupled over past month

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    A year of scientific breakthroughs

    The progress of new discoveries must be celebrated

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  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
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    UK biotech takes on personalised cancer therapy side effects

    Autolus hopes its less gruelling Car-T treatment for a type of leukaemia will allow it to compete with bigger rivals

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  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
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    Several factors could be contributing but experts are yet to reach a consensus on an explanation for the rapid decline

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  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
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    Ottimo raises $140mn in pursuit of ‘$100bn market’ for new cancer drugs

    Boss David Epstein hopes to replicate his success at Seagen after $43bn sale last year

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  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
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    In this monthly series, running alongside our existing Tech Exchange dialogues, FT journalists talk to the scientists, developers and business leaders exploring ever more applications for artificial intelligence, in every aspect of our lives

  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    Could weight-loss drugs treat other chronic diseases?

    Initial research has focused on obesity, but Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro may potentially be used for addiction, heart disease and Alzheimer’s

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  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Scientists find potential link between ultra-processed foods and cancer

    Fatty molecules also found in UPFs seen at high levels in colorectal tumours

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  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
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    Keep vaccines out of politics

    This is a time for treating people as individuals rather than as members of a tribe

  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
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    Covid lockdown sceptic is frontrunner to lead Trump health agency

    Jay Bhattacharya at the NIH would be the latest ally of Robert F Kennedy Jr to take a role overseeing US healthcare

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  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
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    ‘Google Maps’ project for cells reveals their role in spread of disease

    Effort to understand cellular functions promises to unlock crucial information about personal health

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  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
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    Diabetics left without treatment as global rate of disease doubles

    Sharp rise in cases over 30 years compounded by millions of people lacking access to medication, Lancet study finds

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  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    Genomics
    Gene screening can cut early disease deaths by 25%, study shows

    People prone to breast cancer and diabetes among beneficiaries of early testing

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  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Disease control and prevention
    UK health agencies join with Oxford Nanopore to speed up pathogen screening

    Initiative is part of growing international efforts to give early warning of pandemic threats

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  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
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    Abbott Laboratories’ ‘virus hunters’ are tracking disease risks exacerbated by climate change

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  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
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    Also in today’s newsletter, can biodiversity credits avoid the blowback that’s hit the carbon credit market?

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  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Inside Israel’s fight to make fathers of its dead soldiers

    Since last October, the families of every fallen soldier have been offered postmortem sperm retrieval

    Frozen sperm straws stored in goblets within a liquid nitrogen tank
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
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    The human race is suffering from success

    Treating today’s mental and physical conditions may be a challenge, but their prevalence is actually a good sign

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  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
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    Weight-loss drugs show promise in tackling opioid and alcohol abuse

    Analysis points to potential of drugs such as Ozempic beyond tackling obesity and diabetes

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