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Elaine Lynch, 59, was diagnosed with stage four non-small cell lung cancer in August 2021, which had spread to her spine and brain. She was told it was terminal but has defied the odds

The top chief executives earned a combined £329.4m in pay and perks last year, an analysis of the annual reports from 58 firms in the FTSE 100 has revealed

The pharmaceutical giant will launch 20 new medicines over the coming years in areas like cancer care and rare diseases

Nadia Sawalha has been campaigning with best friend Hannah Gardener, who is living with secondary incurable breast cancer, to raise awareness of the importance of the cancer drug Enhertu

The TV doctor was paid £22,500 by the company in 2021 for an advertising campaign - but he failed to disclose this to show executives when he led a discussion on the safety of the AZ Covid vaccine last week

AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid vaccine worldwide claiming it is due to a lack of demand for the product and it comes after it was linked to a rare but dangerous side-effect

Pascal Soriot, the company's chief executive, said the company 'had a very strong start in 2024'

Researchers have identified genetic variants in two genes that have some of the most significant impacts on the risk of obesity, diabetes and liver disease ever uncovered

Doctors fought on the front line of Covid, but now they aren't even given a fair pay deal - they were ripping up bin bags for PPE while the government was handing out multi-million-pound contracts to their friends

The pharmaceutical firm reported pre-tax profits of £5.5 billion for 2023, up from £1.8 billion the previous year

Big bosses like pharmaceuticals chief Pascal Soriot and weapons manufacturer Charles Woodburn earn over a hundred times more per hour than what an average worker can make in a whole year

Julie Woodington, 56, from, Bristol, said she is going to have to sell her home to fund the treatment for her lung cancer, which is approved in the EU and the US - but not in the UK

The world's largest vaccine maker, Serum Institute of India (SII), agreed to send 10million doses at the very start of the rollout as a token of gratitude for the Oxford vaccine

Jamie Scott, aged 47, is taking AstraZeneca to the High Court over its Covid-19 vaccine which he alleges caused a rare blood clotting condition after he was injected

The UK's blue chip index has dropped nearly 100 points with housebuilders among the stocks seeing the biggest losses

The blue-chip index was boosted by gains for pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca while BP and Shell saw another positive day of trading

The average FTSE 100 chief executive netted £3.91million in 2022 which was the highest in five years after jumping from £3.41million in 2021, according to think tank the High Pay Centre

Dr Stephen Wright from Sevenoaks, Kent, was among the earliest groups of people to be given the vaccine during the pandemic - he died 10 days later

Lisa Shaw's husband Gareth Eve is suing AstraZeneca for answers after the death of the BBC presenter who became unwell from taking her first Covid jab as he says he wants "answers"

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, 47, opted for a double mastectomy after testing positive for the BRCA gene, but the olaparib drug targets cancers by stopping tumour cells from repairing their DNA

The average chief executive of a FTSE 100 company is on £3.41million a year, according to a think tank. That equates to 103 times more than the £33,000 annual wage of a typical full-time worker