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The week of 7 Nov to 13 Nov · No. 38 in the world

Medicine and living longer

New treatments, drugs, biotech and healthcare.

Share of the world’s attention
0.2%
Change
–
12 weeks

A third what people search for on Google, a third what they read on Wikipedia, a third what the news covers: attention, not market size. Games, for one, are played far more than they’re searched for or read about. How it’s measured

Not the leading theme in any country this week

Medicine and living longer · this week

Current Zeitgeist

Breakdown

What its reading is made of this week, part by part

72.2%Healthcare & hospitals

Total100.0%

Select a part to open it or see what people read in it

Most read in Healthcare & hospitals

  1. Theranos

    No. 1 · 104.4k views
  2. 2

    Amy Acton

    No. 2 · 86.6k viewsair force, Public domain
  3. 3

    Priscilla Chan

    No. 3 · 46.2k viewsRosiestep, CC BY 4.0
  4. 4

    Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya

    No. 4 · 41k viewsNecati Savaş, EC - Audiovisual Service, CC BY 4.0
  5. 5

    Josef Mengele

    No. 5 · 26.5k viewsUnknown, i.e. either Bernhard Walther or Ernst Hofmann or Karl-Friedrich Höcker, Public domain

Share of Wikipedia reading in the world, 7 – 13 Nov · 1.4m page views · Open in the explorer

Inside Health

Every area’s share of its reading this week; this theme’s in colour

43.9%Diseases & conditions

Total100.0%

In colour: counted in this theme

Share of Wikipedia reading in the world, 7 – 13 Nov · 4m page views · Open in the explorer

Companies people read about

The most-read companies in it on Wikipedia this week

  1. Theranos
  2. Eli Lilly and Company
  3. Procter & Gamble
  4. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
  5. Kaiser Permanente
  6. Purdue Pharma

Where it’s biggest

Its share of each country’s attention this week

0 to 0% or moreNo data

Reading and news · 231.7m · Indicative

New and growing

Phrases new or growing in this week’s English-language headlines, against the 8 weeks before

  1. Earnings Results · EPS · Quarterly Earnings

    New

    14 headlines · 3 outlets

    Sana Biotechnology (NASDAQ:SANA) Announces Quarterly Earnings Results, Beats Expectations By $0.01 EPStickerreport.com

  2. Q3 · Teva Pharmaceutical Industries

    New

    8 headlines · 5 outlets

    Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited Q3 Income Declinesrttnews.com

  3. stem cell donor

    New

    4 headlines · 4 outlets

    Parents issue urgent plea for stem cell donor to save baby boyindependent.co.uk

  4. work requirements

    New

    4 headlines · 4 outlets

    Medicaid enrollees ages 19-64 face new work requirements starting Jan. 1, 2027local12.com

  5. iShares

    New

    4 headlines · 3 outlets

    iShares Biotechnology ETF $IBB Stock Acquired by Point Nemo Capital LLCthemarketsdaily.com

  6. Price Target · Vertex Pharmaceuticals · VRTX

    Rising

    12 headlines · 3 outlets

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) Price Target Raised to $563.00dailypolitical.com

  7. Moving Average · Breaks Above · Adaptive Biotechnologies

    Rising

    9 headlines · 3 outlets

    Adaptive Biotechnologies (NASDAQ:ADPT) Shares Break Above 50 Day Moving Average Following Insider Sellingtickerreport.com

  8. gene editing

    Rising

    5 headlines · 5 outlets

    UCLA advances CRISPR gene-editing therapy for sickle cell diseasenews-medical.net

Current stories

The stories and events behind this week

  1. mzamin.com

  2. springfieldnewssun.com

  3. wvxu.org

  4. abnews.ru

  5. zazoom.it

News · 5 · Indicative

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On social media

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Discussion

Medicine and living longer · this week

Emotions

How its news sounds

Its tone against its usual, and each feeling against the average news

Brighter than usual

Tone +1.06 · usual +0.53

Mostly sadness, 1.2× the average

  • Anxiety0.9×
  • Fear0.4×
  • Anger0.3×
  • Sadness1.2×

Each bar compares a feeling with the average news here; the tick marks the average.

News · 1k · Indicative
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