Patients and their families may see hope in the news that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a drug to slow the pace of Alzheimer’s disease. Aducanumab is the first medicine authorised to treat what might be an underlying cause of the disease: amyloid beta clumps that accumulate in the brain. Yet the evidence from clinical trials that ...

The last time Geneva served as the venue for a US-Russia summit — in 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev, still fresh in his role as Secretary General of the Soviet Communist Party, met with Ronald Reagan — the US president remarked that “people didn’t get into trouble when they talked to each other but rather when they talked about each other.” ...

Bloomberg Vertical Aerospace Group Ltd, the developer of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, won pre-order contracts of as much as $4 billion as it plans to go public through a merger with a blank-check company. American Airlines Group Inc, Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd and aircraft lessor Avolon Holdings Ltd agreed to buy as many as 1,000 of the vertical ...