[BrexitDB NOTE: These agencies have now left the UK.] Wrangle around European Medicines Agency and European Banking Authority after Brussels insists they must leave UK.

Education secretary lauds vaccine rollout saying scientists in UK better than in France, Belgium or US.

Preparing Brexit: How ready is the UK? is our second report examining government and business preparations for the end of the transition period, building on Preparing Brexit: The scale of the task left for UK government and business, published in July.

And it will cost more here because of the UK pulling out of the European Medicines Agency on 30 December.

The most important Brexit event of the week came and went with relatively little fanfare, yet it marks a significant moment.

The negotiations which will set our relationship with our closest neighbours for the next generation are being rushed in a reckless game of chicken.

Everyone is fishing in the same pond. Stocks built up in readiness for Brexit are having to be replenished. If another pandemic strikes, we’ll hardly be in the best position to get through it.

A coronavirus vaccine could be ready for approval in a year’s time in an “optimistic scenario”, the European Medicines Agency has said.

More than three quarters of the public think the UK should participate in EU schemes to secure vital protective equipment, as it emerged ministers passed on three opportunities to take part.

Experts warn that European Medicines Agency membership would have had advantages.

The coronavirus should remind us of just why international cooperation is so important in reducing the threat of infectious disease.

Brexit could have major implications for health and social care in England. Here we look at some of the latest developments that could have an impact.

The headlong rush to an end nobody voted for, and why No Deal is a man-made asteroid strike. ... Linguistic programming as Johnson drills the buzzphrase “undemocratic backstop” into the national mind. ... Ingrid – our secret agent within the Tory Party – finally succumbs to Stockholm Syndrome. The Government’s snappy 1,400 page No Deal for small businesses.

As the EU referendum grows ever closer, Lord Darzi, Elias Mossialos and colleagues seek to redress a lack of evidence on the role of the union on our health system.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is a European Union agency for the evaluation and supervision of medicinal products.

In the political realm, no one knows how Brexit’s long-running theater of the absurd will end. But for much of the business world, Britain’s departure from the European Union has effectively happened.

The divorce from the EU looks set to be delayed and could be softened or even abandoned, but the cost of separation is already apparent.

With fears over manufacturing costs and future investment, here’s what firms are doing.

Criminals selling counterfeit drugs prey on the vulnerable. The threat of no deal may make anxious patients turn to them.

US, European, Japanese and Chinese patients could get novel medicines ahead of patients in the UK after Brexit, the CEO of French pharma Ipsen has said in an interview.