For the life sciences sector, the global nursing shortage is not a background public health concern. It is a clinical trial staffing problem, a pharmaceutical market access problem, and a real-world evidence problem. The WHO's 2025 State of the World's Nursing report...
Life science news 4 May 2026: Eli Lilly's record $19.8 billion quarterly earnings, the FDA's real-time clinical trial revolution and a landmark week for UK regulatory reform define a momentous seven days for global life science. Eli Lilly reported worldwide revenue of...
Precision medicine is no longer a futuristic concept. Genomic panels, pharmacogenomic testing, advanced biomarker analysis, and individualized risk stratification tools are all available today. Yet for the vast majority of patients walking into a primary care office,...
India's largest pharmaceutical company, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, has agreed to acquire New Jersey-based Organon & Co. in an all-cash transaction valued at $11.75 billion, marking the largest acquisition ever undertaken by an Indian biopharmaceutical company....
Healthcare organisations invest significantly in psychosocial risk frameworks, governance structures and leadership development. Yet a new international study highlights a type of organisational risk that most of those frameworks are not designed to detect. It is a...
Life science news 27 April 2026: Eli Lilly's $7 billion in vivo CAR-T deal, Trump's psychedelics executive order and a first-ever gene therapy for hearing loss headline a landmark week across global life science. Eli Lilly announced on 20 April its acquisition of...
Your essential life science news digest: the past week's biggest stories in pharma, biotech and healthcare. 👇 This week's life science news was defined by regulatory uncertainty and clinical momentum. A landmark FDA leadership departure sent rare disease stocks...
Imperial College London, University of Oxford and GSK Launch £11 Million Centre to Build Digital Twins of Human Organs A new research centre backed by £11 million in funding has been established by Imperial College London, the University of Oxford and GSK to develop...
For many modern women, the concept of fertility is something to consider later, when life feels steady and the timing feels right. Now more than ever, trends that encourage delaying partnership, questioning traditional paths, or seeking information earlier are...
A Neurodevelopmental Framework for Strategic Life Construction In an era defined by rapid technological change, algorithmic persuasion, and rising rates of youth anxiety, the question is no longer whether children need education, but what kind of education is most...
70,000 sq. ft. facility expands the company's biopharma, chemical and cold chain storage capacities DUBLIN, Ireland, (March 6, 2026)Â - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc, the world leader in serving science, today announced the opening of a new, 70,000 sq.ft. distribution...
People living with dementia will help close a long-standing weakness in research - the clinical trial evidence gap - in a new home-based study. While those over 65 account for two-thirds of illness in the UK, they make up just one-third of trial participants. This...
In its most significant structural overhaul since the 2021 Organon spin-off, MSD (known as Merck & Co. in the U.S. and Canada) has announced the division of its Human Health business into two standalone units: an Oncology Business Unit and a Specialty, Pharma...
A New Era for EHR Data A new study published in the latest issue of the Royal College of Physicians’ Future Healthcare Journal introduces PICTURE, an innovative data platform designed to convert routine electronic health record (EHR) data into actionable clinical...
After the success of previous summits, the revolutionary Smart Ageing Summit has announced a return to Oxford this May to host its fourth annual event. Rhodes House, University of Oxford is the perfect setting for non-profit organisation Oxford Health Project to host...
British research expertise to deliver faster cancer diagnosis and cleaner energy Major new backing for medical imaging centres across the UK alongside tidal energy testing expansion in Orkney and cutting-edge materials. From: Â Department for Science, Innovation and...
The global market for GLP-1 receptor agonists, once defined by scarcity and premium pricing, is entering a new phase. Prices for these blockbuster medicines, used to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes, are beginning to fall rapidly, forcing pharmaceutical companies,...
A Diagnostic Separation That Shaped a Generation For most of the modern history of psychiatry, autism and ADHD were treated as mutually exclusive conditions. Clinicians were trained to look for one or the other. Until the publication of DSM-5 in 2013, a dual diagnosis...