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  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    UK welfare reform is unavoidable

    Reforming the benefits system is vital to avoid ever-rising taxes

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    Rachel Reeves holds a red folder labeled "Chancellor of the Exchequer" while leaving a building.
  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    Pfizer files second lawsuit to block Novo Nordisk’s $9bn Metsera bid

    Novo and Metsera deny Pfizer’s arguments

    2 hours ago
    The Novo Nordisk logo on a blue sign in front of the company’s modern, curved headquarters.
  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
    5,000 steps a day may help slow Alzheimer’s-linked decline, study shows

    Research using data from Harvard Aging Brain Study showed more active patients saw slower cognitive deterioration

    3 hours ago
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  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
    National Health Service
    NHS productivity falls even as hospital efficiency in England rises

    Contrasting data points to gains in parts of health service not extending across wider sector

    3 hours ago
    Hospital staff wearing masks work and assist patients in a busy corridor at Ealing Hospital in London.
  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
    Medical science
    Apple Watch data teamed with AI reveals heart damage

    Researchers say advance could make early screening for structural heart disease possible on a large scale

  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
    The Big Read
    How a warmer world is making pregnancy riskier

    Some scientists argue that the link between increasing heat and adverse maternal outcomes is quietly becoming a public health emergency

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  • Saturday, 1 November, 2025
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Boots sued for alleged copycat neck pillow

    Travel accessories group Travel Blue calls for UK retailer to halt sales and demands damages

    A woman takes a nap while travelling using a generic neck pillow, and not one by Travel Blue or Boots
  • Saturday, 1 November, 2025
    Jo Ellison
    The step-count conundrum

    Just how many really count?

    A person with dark nail polish taps their smartwatch during a workout.
  • Saturday, 1 November, 2025
    FT Magazine
    The men who stared at mushroom clouds

    For veterans of Britain’s nuclear tests, an annual reunion is the place to discuss hula and God-like explosions with others who truly understand

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  • Saturday, 1 November, 2025
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Friendship: the best investment we can ever make

    A life that is rich in friendship is one worth living to the full

    Montage of a hand on a friend’s shoulder with a graph paper background
  • Friday, 31 October, 2025
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    UK regulator threatens tech giants with algorithm audits to protect children

    Ofcom chief Melanie Dawes reveals she held meetings with US AI firms over Online Safety Act

  • Friday, 31 October, 2025
    Wellbeing and fitness
    Pursuit of ‘healthy hedonism’ drives UK sauna boom

    Fuelled by an interest in longevity and wellness, hot room therapies are on the rise in towns and cities

    Callum Heinrich and Ella Price smile and relax together in an outdoor wooden hot tub at Hackney Wick Community Sauna Baths.
  • Thursday, 30 October, 2025
    The Big Read
    The race to launch a pill for weight loss

    Despite success with injectable drugs pharma companies are investing heavily in tablets, long considered the holy grail of obesity medicine

    Montage of images of a twisted tape measure, a pill and two injectable semaglutide doses
  • Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
    Gates Foundation
    Gates Foundation skews global health agenda after US retreat, study says

    World Health Organization’s priorities tilted by reliance on charitable foundation, according to research

    Bill Gates speaks and gestures with his hands while seated on stage at the Global Business Forum.
  • Tuesday, 28 October, 2025
    FT SeriesCatch up with HTSI’s top stories – from the perfect ski hotel to how to pimp your brain power
    Eight ways to boost your brain

    When it comes to staying smart, the simplest solutions are the best

    A brain on a shelving unit full of compartments
  • Friday, 24 October, 2025
    Food & Beverage
    Beer’s value as ‘social lubricant’ is important in health debate: Heineken boss

    Social aspect of drinking should not be overlooked, Dolf van den Brink says

    Several Heineken beer bottles are lined up on a supermarket shelf, showing the labels with red stars prominently.
  • Friday, 24 October, 2025
    The new age of anti-ageing
    US ‘wellness’ industry scents opportunity to go mainstream

    Supplement manufacturers position themselves to exploit the Trump administration’s openness to fringe science

    Montage of various pills resting in a wooden spoon, surrounded by floating orange and white tablets against a pink backdrop
  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
    GSK PLC
    US health agency reapproves GSK blood cancer drug after new trial

    FDA gives go-ahead to UK drugmaker’s multiple myeloma treatment Blenrep

    Emma Walmsley stands near a window, wearing glasses, a white lace jacket, and an orange blouse with a tied scarf.
  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
    Food diet
    Sugar rationing in infancy cuts later risk of heart disease by 20%

    New analysis compares health records of people born before and after UK wartime restrictions ended in 1953

    A London shopkeeper pins a handwritten sign in a window that reads: "5-0 p.m. Sugar now 4½d lb."
  • Wednesday, 22 October, 2025
    Genomics
    Scientists unveil pigs gene-edited to resist swine fever

    ‘Genetic scissors’ technology could boost efforts to protect millions of animals from disease

    Two young pigs with yellow ear tags stand on straw bedding in a pen, appearing healthy and alert.
  • Wednesday, 22 October, 2025
    Anjana Ahuja
    Why the ‘thrifty gene’ hypothesis is back

    An unexpected finding shows that obesity and heart disease do not always go hand-in-hand

    An illustration showing a heart wrapped by a yellow tape measure and a blue DNA helix against a purple background.
  • Tuesday, 21 October, 2025
    UK Covid inquiry
    UK ‘probably did go too far’ with Covid rules, Boris Johnson says

    Former prime minister admits children paid ‘huge, huge price’ as government responded to pandemic

    Boris Johnson gestures with both arms raised while giving evidence at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, seated at a desk with microphones.
  • Tuesday, 21 October, 2025
    Health sector
    EU weighs ban on ethanol in hand sanitiser over cancer fears

    Working group within European Chemicals Agency flags substance as toxic for humans

    A person dispensing clear gel hand sanitiser from a bottle on to their palm
  • Tuesday, 21 October, 2025
    FT SeriesCatch up with HTSI’s top stories – from the great melatonin debate to the joy of a Boomer holiday
    How safe is melatonin?

    Experts weigh in on the world’s favourite sleep aid 

    Ryder Forsyth photographed for HTSI by Paul Wetherell
  • Monday, 20 October, 2025
    OutlookJosh Gabert-Doyon
    The manosphere is going into business

    Online influencers are targeting young men with tips on how to walk, talk and breathe

    The influencers Alex Hormozi, Mike Skrypchyk and Andy Elliott
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