Receive free Managing yourself updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Managing yourself news every morning. When the alarm goes off at 6am and I reach blearily for the dubious health supplements I was suckered into buying on Instagram, it doesn’t feel like a formula for winning at life.…
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It may not have lodged itself in the public imagination as indelibly as the coal tip that flattened a primary school at Aberfan in 1966 or the lethal 1989 stadium crush at Hillsborough or 2017’s conflagration at Grenfell Tower. But the scandal in which thousands of people around the world were given transfusions or injected with…
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Receive free Demographics and population updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Demographics and population news every morning. White Britons die at higher rates than any other ethnic group, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics. This finding comes despite the disproportionate impact of Covid on…
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Receive free National Health Service updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest National Health Service news every morning. The staffing crisis in the NHS has been laid bare in a study that shows many doctors, nurses and other personnel who enter professional training never join the full-time workforce, or…
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Receive free Novo Nordisk AS updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Novo Nordisk AS news every morning. Healthcare providers in the US wrote more than 9mn prescriptions for Ozempic and similar weight loss and diabetes drugs in the final quarter of 2022, as demand soars for the blockbuster…
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Receive free Disease control and prevention updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Disease control and prevention news every morning. The writer is a science commentator Vaccines teach the immune system to remember, by laying down molecular memories of viruses and bacteria. Infection reawakens memories of these pathogens, stimulating…
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Receive free Covid-19 vaccines updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Covid-19 vaccines news every morning. Brussels is negotiating a new Covid-19 vaccine procurement deal with US drugmaker Moderna as EU health authorities grow concerned about a rise in coronavirus infections. The deal is being negotiated between Brussels and…
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Receive free Coronavirus treatment updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Coronavirus treatment news every morning. A blockbuster drug developed by US pharmaceutical group Merck to treat Covid-19 has been linked to mutations transmitted when the coronavirus spreads between patients, a finding that will increase scrutiny about its usefulness…
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Receive free Healthcare updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Healthcare news every morning. Sitting in Britain, one has the uncomfortable feeling that the world outside is getting bigger. With green industries being lured by America, the City losing equity listings and film hit by the Hollywood writers’ strike,…
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Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Prime minister Rishi Sunak is considering imposing a complete ban on smoking for the next generation in what would amount to some of the strictest measures to tackle the health problem anywhere in…
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