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The former head of MI5 now leads one of the world’s most powerful medical research charities. With £1bn a year to spend, her aim is to ‘make a real difference to health’
Study doubts whether costly treatments are better than paracetamol
Sir William Castell on the convergence of technologies that will enable exact diagnoses and personalised treatments
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Pension funds and asset managers back campaign to open access to pharma groups’ clinical data
Francis Crick Institute to join forces with GSK in hunt for new medicines
Some climate-conscious investors prefer engagement on fossil fuels
Focus on building labs, surveillance networks and response capacity worldwide
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Controversial IVF technique aims to prevent inherited diseases
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Group is getting ‘back to basics’ as it cuts prices to compete
Wellcome Trust rides high on three big trends of the year
Hopes rise for drug to protect thousands of healthcare workers
Business opportunities are lost when academics and entrepreneurs inhabit separate worlds
Drugmakers to be offered indemnity for new vaccine
UK’s biggest charitable foundation begins search to fill part-time post from 2016
Given a lack of leadership from the top, the Ebola crisis highlights how much more local action is required
Ignoring a sickness that has been confined to poor countries has rebounded on the rich world
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is developing techniques that range from genome mapping to computer games
Trial will test if later school starts lead to better GCSE results
Wellcome Trust pays £250m for Co-op’s 40,000-acre farming business
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