Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been re-elected as director-general of the World Health Organization, setting him up for another five years in the top job at the global health body. Tedros was elected to a second term in a secret ballot on Tuesday, after running unopposed. In a break from tradition, his country of origin, Ethiopia,…
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A high school prom in Hawaii where masked dancers weren’t allowed to touch. A return to virtual city council meetings in one Colorado town after the mayor and others tested positive following an in-person session. A reinstated mask mandate at skilled nursing facilities in Los Angeles County after 22 new outbreaks in a single week.…
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The National Football League on Tuesday unveiled a partnership with historically Black colleges and universities to give 16 medical students an opportunity to practice sports medicine in the league. Starting next football season, the NFL Diversity in Sports Medicine Pipeline Initiative will give HBCU students a one-month clinical rotation at one of eight NFL teams:…
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Shell’s climate goals came under fire at the company’s annual meeting as shareholders backed the strategy in lower numbers than last year and activists protesting against the energy major’s continued development of fossil fuels delayed proceedings for almost three hours. Under the ornate domed roof of Central Hall Westminster in London, protesters, who all had…
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EU officials are working on a potential centralised procurement deal for smallpox vaccines to be used against rising numbers of monkeypox infections in Europe, according to people familiar with the matter, as nations race to secure orders for the relatively limited number of doses available. Monkeypox typically causes fever and skin lesions but usually clears…
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HSBC banker Stuart Kirk has done the world of green finance a tremendous service. He has exposed widespread, muddled thinking about a central aspect of climate change: financial risk. It is not the lesson that he intended, nor one that many in the industry wish to take, but it is a start. Kirk, the global…
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This article is an on-site version of our #techFT newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox Things are going south fast for social media, with Snap warning overnight of a rapid deterioration over the past month in the “macroeconomic environment”, leading to its shares falling more than 40 per…
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Women are more than twice as likely as men to suffer from long Covid, according to the largest study of the condition to date, which found a history of autoimmune disease or depression also increased the likelihood of experiencing symptoms. The study by genetic testing company 23andMe surveyed more than 100,000 people who had Covid-19,…
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Civica, the hospital-backed generic pharmaceutical company, named Ned McCoy as its new CEO on Tuesday. McCoy is the company’s chief operating officer and will take over from current CEO, Martin VanTrieste on June 1. VanTrieste will stay on as an advisor to Civica and remain on its board of directors. As part of the transition,…
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UK banks and insurers that fail to manage the risks associated with climate change could suffer a 10-15 per cent hit to their annual profits, the Bank of England warned on Tuesday. The results of the regulator’s inaugural “climate stress test” indicated that banks could incur up to £225bn in credit losses by 2050, while…
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