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

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    On paper the obesity drug market is huge but mass adoption of the treatments would strain health budgets

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    Late-stage trial of Tirzepatide could be a ‘potential breakthrough’ in treatment, says US drugmaker

  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
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    The final instalment of our series on innovation in European healthcare examines the effects of the slump in biotech valuations and changes in EU health policy

  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
    Special ReportFT Health: Innovation in Healthcare
    Streamlined EU process promises faster access to breakthrough drugs

    ‘Intricate dance’ under way to ensure simplified assessments of new medicines maintain quality and integrity

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
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    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

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    How will UK’s fixed-fee scheme for antibiotics help tackle the growing health crisis?

    Move could boost global development of drugs to ease antimicrobial resistance

  • Monday, 7 March, 2022
    Special ReportFT Health: Future of Antibiotics
    How pharma economics hold back antibiotic development

    New drugs are needed as resistance grows but plans to improve incentives are too modest, executives say

  • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    Nimble UK regulator is a draw for drugmakers, says former vaccines chief

    Kate Bingham urges fund managers to step up investment in life sciences

  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
    Sally Davies
    It’s time to confront the pandemic of antibiotic resistance

    To save lives and economies, we must make progress by drawing on lessons from Covid-19

  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    Coronavirus treatment
    Novartis to seek speedy approval for Covid drug after positive trials

    Swiss drugmaker to license antiviral therapeutic after success in early-stage tests

  • Wednesday, 5 January, 2022
    Pfizer Inc
    Pfizer and BioNTech team up to develop mRNA-based shingles vaccine

    Drugmakers set to take on GSK as they aim to replicate Covid jab success

  • Tuesday, 4 January, 2022
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    Long Covid: why do some people have symptoms months after infection?

    Researchers say more than 100m suffer ill effects for at least 12 weeks

  • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
    UK life sciences lobby calls for investment in antivirals to fight Covid

    Lower effectiveness of vaccines against Omicron makes need for antivirals more urgent, says UK BioIndustry Association chair

  • Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Pfizer says three vaccine doses offer protection against Omicron

    Preliminary research suggests two shots show significantly reduced effectiveness against new coronavirus variant

  • Sunday, 5 December, 2021
    Kate Bingham
    Covid has given UK biotech a lesson — and a legacy

    Good venture capitalism should build companies up, developing medicines that deliver public good and profit

  • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
    AstraZeneca PLC
    Pascal Soriot links AstraZeneca jab to low UK hospitalisations

    Chief executive says more data needed to explain Europe’s higher rate of admissions

  • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
    AstraZeneca PLC
    AstraZeneca calls on UK to increase science investment

    Chair of pharma group says support will boost economy as it opens £1bn R&D campus in Cambridge

  • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
    Biogen Inc
    European regulators cast doubt on Biogen Alzheimer’s drug

    Vote by European Medicines Agency panel deals setback to controversial $56,000-a-year treatment

  • Friday, 12 November, 2021
    The Big Read
    The Covid drugs are finally here

    New medicines from Pfizer and Merck could take some pressure off hospitals. But will they work on the already vaccinated?

  • Tuesday, 9 November, 2021
    AstraZeneca PLC
    AstraZeneca commits to vaccines business with new division

    Move comes despite Anglo-Swedish group’s non-profit Covid-19 jab suffering setbacks earlier this year

  • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
    Brooke Masters
    The vaccine system is broken — but Covid shows us how to fix it

    Stable funding for work on less glamorous diseases would make the system fairer and more resilient

  • Wednesday, 13 October, 2021
    The Big Read
    Covid success of mRNA vaccines opens way to a new generation of drugs

    Personalised cancer treatments are among those being developed using a technology once distrusted by big pharma

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    Coronavirus treatment
    Merck says Covid antiviral pill halves risk of hospitalisation and death

    US pharma group seeks authorisation for first drug of its kind after ‘remarkable’ clinical trial

  • Tuesday, 28 September, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Sanofi stops development of Covid vaccine based on mRNA technology

    French group says it is too late to market jab and is working on another with GSK using different technique

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