Health, Fitness & Food

UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill on May 1, 2024 in Washington, DC.  Kent Nishimura | Getty Images UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty confirmed for the first time that the company paid a $22 million ransom to hackers who breached its subsidiary Change Healthcare and caused widespread fallout

In this article AMGN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Amgen logo is displayed outside Amgen headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California, on May 17, 2023. Mario Tama | Getty Images Amgen on Thursday said it will stop developing its experimental weight loss pill and instead move forward with its injectable drug and other products

In this article MRNA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nikos Pekiaridis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Moderna on Thursday posted a narrower-than-expected loss for the first quarter as the company’s cost-cutting efforts took hold and sales of its Covid vaccine, its only commercially available product, topped estimates.  The results come as Moderna inches closer

In this article UNH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty on Wednesday told lawmakers that data from an estimated one-third of Americans could have been compromised in the cyberattack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare, and that the company paid a $22 million ransom

In this article PFE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Pfizer on Wednesday reported first-quarter revenue that beat expectations and hiked its full-year profit outlook, benefitting from its broad cost-cutting program and strong sales of its non-Covid products. The company now expects to book adjusted earnings of $2.15

In this article UNH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images On a Sunday in early March, Dr. Angeli Maun Akey noticed something peculiar while making payroll for her private practice in Gainesville, Florida: She was missing $19,000. Akey owns and operates a primary care practice that serves around

In this article WMT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The front desk is visible Friday, March 29, 2024, at the new Walmart Health Center in Sugar Land which will offer primary care, dental, counseling, lab and X-ray services at the location on Highway 6. Kirk Sides | Houston Chronicle | Hearst Newspapers | Getty Images

In this article BMY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images A federal judge in New Jersey on Monday rejected Johnson & Johnson‘s and Bristol Myers Squibb‘s legal challenges to the Biden administration’s Medicare drug-price negotiations, ruling that the program is constitutional.  The decision is another win for the

In this article UNH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Angelp | Istock | Getty Images Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up. Good morning! After a two-year dry spell, initial public offerings by biotech companies showed signs of life during the first three

In this article BIIB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A test tube is seen in front of displayed Biogen logo in this illustration taken on, December 1, 2021. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Biogen on Wednesday reported first-quarter profit that topped estimates as the company’s cost-cutting efforts took hold and sales of its closely watched

In this article PFE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Pfizer‘s treatment for a rare genetic bleeding disorder, making it the company’s first-ever gene therapy to win clearance in the U.S.  The agency greenlit the drug, which will be marketed

In this article CVS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The CVS pharmacy logo is displayed on a sign above a CVS Health Corp. store in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 7, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images A CVS in Las Vegas has become the first location to join a new

In this article MRK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The exterior view of the entrance to Merck headquarters in Rahway, New Jersey, on Feb. 5, 2024. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Merck on Thursday reported first-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that topped expectations as it posted strong sales of its blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda

In this article BMY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Bristol Myers Squibb research and development center at Cambridge Crossing in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023.  Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bristol Myers Squibb on Thursday reported first-quarter revenue that topped expectations as its blockbuster blood thinner Eliquis and

A person rides past a Walgreens truck, owned by the Walgreens Boots Alliance, in Manhattan, New York City, on Nov. 26, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Walgreens on Thursday said it will start to work directly with drugmakers to bring cell and gene therapies to U.S. patients as part of a broader expansion of its specialty

In this article NVO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The anti-diabetic medication “Ozempic” (semaglutide) made by Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. Joel Saget | AFP | Getty Images The U.S. Senate has launched an investigation into the high price of Novo Nordisk‘s popular weight loss and diabetes drugs Ozempic and Wegovy in the United

In this article NOVO.B-DK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Boxes of Wegovy made by Novo Nordisk are seen at a pharmacy in London, Britain March 8, 2024.  Hollie Adams | Reuters More than 3 million people with Medicare could be eligible for coverage of Wegovy now that the blockbuster weight loss drug is also

In this article ORCL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Larry Ellison, co-founder and chairman of Oracle, speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference in San Francisco on Oct. 3, 2017. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its world headquarters to Nashville,

In this article UNH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images UnitedHealth Group on Monday said it paid ransom to cyberthreat actors to try and protect patient data, following the February cyberattack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare. The company also confirmed that files containing personal information were compromised in

Dr. Jordan Shlain, founder of Private Medical. Credit: Jordan Shlain A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. When people ask Dr. Jordan Shlain to describe his medical practice, he says