medicines

The multinational business, known as Merck in the US, said it would move its life sciences research to the US and cut more than 100 UK jobs, blaming successive governments for undervaluing innovative medicines.

It has said the area includes essential infrastructure, including field hospitals and water pipelines, and that supplies of food, tents and medicines will be delivered there in co-ordination with international organisations.

Prosecutors argue that he tampered with intravenous medicines to induce cardiac arrests, as a means of getting revenge against colleagues.

And in the case of abandoning mRNA vaccine research, it may lead to lives needlessly lost, whether due to potential medicines untapped or to pandemic unpreparedness.

In the UK, there are two medicines licensed to treat male pattern balding - finasteride and minoxidil.