Life science news 1 June 2026: FDA approvals, a landmark obesity pill advance and a $10.5 billion Pfizer partnership define a milestone week for pharma and biotech. The week of 24 to 30 May 2026 delivered a string of significant regulatory milestones, high-value...
Burnout has long been viewed as a matter of individual resilience. Individuals are advised to meditate, sleep well, optimise morning routines, cut down on screen time, show gratitude, achieve a good work-life balance, or just be better at managing time. While these...
Life science news 25 May 2026: Lilly's retatrutide delivers bariatric-surgery-level weight loss in Phase 3, two landmark FDA approvals reshape oncology and hepatology, and a UK biotech targets the global AMR crisis. The week of 17 to 24 May 2026 delivered a dense...
The healthcare sector has a burnout problem it keeps trying to solve with the wrong tools. Across Australia and globally, rates of psychological distress, absenteeism and early career exit among healthcare workers have reached levels that can no longer be attributed...
Across the life sciences sector, a quiet crisis is unfolding. Researchers, clinicians, nurses, and social workers describe feeling trapped in a cycle with no exit: outwardly productive, inwardly depleted. Burnout is not a new phenomenon, but the life sciences...
Life science news 18 May 2026: FDA leadership turmoil, a landmark Alzheimer's breakthrough and a $15 billion China licensing deal define a historic week for the global industry. The week of 10 to 17 May 2026 delivered a concentration of high-impact events across...
70,000 sq. ft. facility expands the company's biopharma, chemical and cold chain storage capacities DUBLIN, Ireland, (March 6, 2026) - 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: 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...
Leading global healthcare services provider Uniphar announces a strategic merger between Uniphar | Clinical and BMclinical, reinforcing Uniphar | Clinical’s integrated clinical supply offering and solidifying its position as a trusted partner to pharmaceutical and...
Thousands of people living with schizophrenia and severe depression are being recruited by the NHS for a major new study which could unlock a “new era” of personalised treatment for severe mental illness. As part of the world’s largest mental health study, researchers...
THX Pharma (formerly known as Theranexus) has entered into a strategic licensing agreement with French pharmaceutical company Biocodex covering two experimental programs, Batten-1 and TX01, in a move aimed at accelerating development and expanding commercial reach....
Auxilium and Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives (MBI) have announced a joint life sciences accelerator cohort in Worcester designed to attract and support founders developing the next generation of healthcare and life sciences technologies. Founders selected for the...