Health, Fitness & Food

In this article MDGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT 3D Illustration of a human liver organ. magicmine | iStock | Getty Images Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up. Good morning! Millions of Americans with a common and potentially life-threatening form of liver

Terry Vine | Getty Images Falling fertility rates are set to spark a transformational demographic shift over the next 25 years, with major implications for the global economy, according to a new study. By 2050, three-quarters of countries are forecast to fall below the population replacement birth rate of 2.1 babies per female, research published

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 Medicare can start covering certain weight loss drugs for the first time — as long as they are approved for an added health

Shortly after the opening bell, we will be buying 140 shares of Abbott Laboratories at roughly $112. Following the trade, Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust will own 700 shares of ABT, increasing our weighting in the portfolio to 2.42% from 1.95%. We are buying more Abbott Laboratories into its recent weakness as we continue to believe

The Neuralink logo is displayed on a smartphone with Neuralink visible in the background in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on January 30, 2024. Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink streamed a live video on Wednesday that showed a patient using the company’s brain implant to move a mouse

Signage is seen outside the U.S. Food and Drug Administration headquarters in White Oak, Maryland, Aug. 29, 2020. Andrew Kelly | Reuters The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned that Chinese-made plastic syringes that are distributed in the U.S. have “more widespread” quality control issues than were previously known. In a safety communication Tuesday,

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. (We’re no longer recording the audio, so we can get this new written feature to members as quickly as possible.) Markets rebound as Nvidia goes green:

UnitedHealth Group Inc. headquarters stands in Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S. Mike Bradley | Bloomberg | Getty Images UnitedHealth Group said Monday that it’s paid out more than $2 billion to help health-care providers who have been affected by the cyberattack on subsidiary Change Healthcare. “We continue to make significant progress in restoring the services impacted by

In this article JNJ NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The New York Stock Exchange welcomes Johnson & Johnson. NYSE Johnson & Johnson on Monday announced it is working with Nvidia to develop and scale new artificial intelligence applications for surgery.  J&J’s MedTech unit and Nvidia plan to integrate AI within devices and platforms

Activists protest the price of prescription drug costs in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 6, 2022. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up. Good morning! The bitter legal battle

Attendees at HIMSS in Orlando, Florida 2024. Courtesy of HIMSS The hottest new technology for doctors promises to bring back an age-old health-care practice: face-to-face conversations with patients. As more than 30,000 health and tech professionals gathered among the palm trees at the HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida, this week, ambient clinical documentation was the

In this article NVO NOVO.B-DK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Victoria Klesty | Reuters In the U.S., Wegovy is no longer just for weight loss. The blockbuster drug — one of a handful of weight loss treatments to skyrocket in popularity over the last year — is now approved in the U.S. for heart

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Wednesday’s key moments. U.S. stocks were mixed Wednesday following Tuesday’s record high close for the S & P 500 on a rebound in the artificial intelligence momentum trade. One day later, tech was

In this article WW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sima Sistani, CEO, WW International, August 16, 2023. Scott Mlyn | CNBC WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani has sent an internal memo to employees attempting to reassure them that the financial position of the company is solid and its new clinical business related to the threat

In this article MDGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, the Madrigal Pharmaceuticals logo is displayed on a smartphone screen.  Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first-ever treatment for a common and potentially deadly form of liver disease

In this article LLY NVO NOVO.B-DK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT There may be a stronger case to invest in single stocks over exchange-traded funds in the weight loss space. Amplify ETFs and Roundhill Investments each filed a prospectus last week to launch funds focused on weight loss companies, a move that Strategas ETF

In this article UNH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, the UnitedHealth Group logo is displayed on a tablet. Igor Golovniov | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched an investigation into UnitedHealth Group following the cyberattack on its Change Healthcare

In this article AMZN LLY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Close-up of a hand holding a cellphone displaying the Amazon Pharmacy system, Lafayette, California, September 15, 2021.  Smith Collection | Gado | Getty Images Eli Lilly on Wednesday said Amazon Pharmacy will help send certain prescription drugs, including the red-hot weight loss treatment Zepbound,

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Novo Nordisk shares climbed 5% on Thursday morning, according to LSEG data, hitting a fresh record highs after the Danish pharmaceutical giant reported positive early trial data for a new experimental weight loss drug. The company told an investor meeting that the Phase I trial of its highly-anticipated

In this article CRM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Salesforce headquarters in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce on Thursday announced new data and artificial intelligence solutions for health-care workers that could help lessen their burdensome administrative workloads.   The first tool is