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Living Goods, a social enterprise based in San Francisco, has built a network of door-to-door salespeople in Uganda A dose of competition is sometimes what's required to get life-saving medicines and other needed products to urban slum dwellers and the rural poor. Drugs to treat malaria, for example, are a recurring necessity in towns like this one east of Kampala. Uganda has an estimated 478 cases of malaria per 1,000 people per year, one of the highest rates in the world. Infections are treatable with the right drugs, so-called artemisinin-based combination therapy, or ACT. But those drugs...

Your embryos are graded according to their microscopic appearance and are given a rank (like grade A, grade B, grade C and so on). A day 3 embryo which gets the topmost grade will have 8 cells which are equal in size, with all cells having single nucleus...

Conscious Capitalism, the new book by Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey, offers flashes of real wisdom; these are the five points with which I resonated the most. Read More...

About 20,000 loans for first-timers were advanced in October, but wary market expert labels them 'the transactions of a privileged few' The number of mortgages taken out by first-time buyers leapt by 14% in October following a quiet September, according to figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). It said if the current gradual improvement in house purchase lending continued as expected, "next year should feel a more stable and positive year in the housing and mortgage markets". A total of 20,000 home loans were advanced to those taking their first step on the property...

Sants to join after Financial Services Authority gardening leave is over and be responsible for bank's relationship with regulators Hector Sants, former boss of the Financial Services Authority, is joining Barclays in the newly created role of head of compliance and government and regulatory relations. Sants will join in January after his six months gardening leave from the City watchdog is completed and will become responsible for the embattled bank's relationship with regulators. He will not have a seat on the board and is joining a bank that his successor at the FSA, Andrew Bailey, said...

Public sector pay roll shrinks to lowest level in a decade – but there are more private sector jobs than ever before, ONS says Unemployment in Britain fell by 82,000 in the three months to October as the private sector created jobs faster than they were being shed in the public sector, the Office for National Statistics said. Despite signs the economy started to weaken in the autumn after its strong summer expansion, employment rose to a record level of just over 29.6 million people following a 40,000 quarterly rise. The ONS said that on the international-agreed ILO measure of unemployment, joblessness...