Health, Fitness & Food

In this article K SJM HSY MDLZ PEP GIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The snack aisle is seen during a tour of a new Amazon Go store in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. Chona Kasinger | Bloomberg | Getty Images For more than a century,

Danaher (DHR) is a day away from shedding its environmental-and-applied solutions segment, and the Club holding’s ability to deliver returns for shareholders appears stronger than ever. Those potential returns can come from two places: Danaher stock and shares of Veralto (VLTO), the soon-to-be-standalone company that’s in the business of water quality. We see underappreciated value

In this article Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Aykut Karahan | Istock | Getty Images Shares of Structure Therapeutics rose more than 30% on Friday after the biotech startup’s experimental obesity pill succeeded in a small early-stage trial.  The once-daily drug helped overweight or obese participants reduce up to 10 pounds of weight on

A pharmacist holds a bottle of the drug Eliquis, made by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, January 9, 2020. George Frey | Reuters A federal judge on Friday declined to block the Biden administration from implementing Medicare drug price negotiations, upholding for now a controversial process that aims to make costly medications

In this article NOVO.B-DK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A view of a plastic model of a stomach during an interview with Doctor Thomas Horbach, specialist in surgery, visceral surgery and nutritional medicine on Novo Nordisk, which will start selling its hugely popular obesity drug Wegovy in Germany later this month, in Munich, Germany,

In this article NOVO.B-DK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A pharmacist displays boxes of Ozempic, a semaglutide injection drug used for treating type 2 diabetes made by Novo Nordisk, at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S. March 29, 2023.  George Frey | Reuters U.S. health care providers wrote more than nine million prescriptions

Schott Pharma debuted on the Frankfurt stock exchange on Thursday at 30 euros per share, trading well above analyst expectations. Shares of the company were up 10% in the first minutes. The medical vial manufacturer set its final offer price at 27 euros ($28.37) per share Wednesday, after the company announced a range of between

In this article AZN-GB BMY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, Farxiga is made available to customers at the New City Halsted Pharmacy on August 29, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images AstraZeneca, Bristol Myers Squibb and Boehringer Ingelheim on Wednesday told CNBC they will agree to participate

Luis Alvarez | Digitalvision | Getty Images High health-care costs are hitting women in the U.S. workforce much harder than men. Working women spend $15.4 billion more in out-of-pocket health expenses annually compared to their male counterparts, according to a new analysis of employer-sponsored health plans from Deloitte Consulting. The study found women spend 18%

In this article GILD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Miami man has pleaded guilty in federal court to distributing adulterated HIV drugs dispensed to U.S. patients. Miami Herald | Tribune News Service | Getty Images A Miami man pleaded guilty to distributing as much as $25 million worth of misbranded and adulterated HIV

In this article MRK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A worker holds a bottle of Merck & Co.’s molnupiravir antiviral medication in a warehouse in Shoham, Israel, on Jan. 18, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A new study released Monday said Merck‘s widely used antiviral Covid pill can cause mutations in the

In this article PFE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this aerial image, damage is seen at a Pfizer pharmaceutical factory after a tornado hit the facility two days earlier, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, July 21, 2023. Sean Rayford | Getty Images Pfizer on Monday said it has restarted most production lines at

In this article MRNA PFE CVS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pharmacist Ani Martirosyan administers an immunization to a patient at a CVS on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023 in Glendale, CA. Brian Van Der Brug | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images The rollout of a new round of Covid vaccines in the U.S.

Michael Nesterov | Istock | Getty Images A federal jury in Miami convicted a Florida nurse practitioner of health-care conspiracy and other charges for playing a key role in a scheme that swindled hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare. Elizabeth Hernandez, 45, fraudulently billed Medicare for more than $200 million in orthotic braces and

Here’s a rapid-fire update on all stocks in Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust, the portfolio we use for the CNBC Investing Club. Jim ran through each stock during our September Monthly Meeting on Thursday. Apple (AAPL): Skeptics have argued for years that Apple is no longer a growth company. But that viewpoint overlooks the high-margin, fast-growing services revenue stream

There’s Eli Lilly (LLY), and then there’s everybody else. That’s a simple way to describe the performance of the Club’s health-care holdings so far this year, in what’s been a challenging period for the industry overall. Of the 11 market sectors year to date, health care is the fourth worth-worst performer, falling 4%, followed by

In this article PFE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A doctor vaccinates an infant against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in a treatment room of her paediatric practice. Swen Pförtner | Picture Alliance | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday recommended Pfizer‘s maternal vaccine that protects infants from respiratory syncytial virus, putting the shot

Thousands of healthcare workers march down Vermont to call for the urgent need for improved working conditions, better support systems and increased investment in the healthcare workforce at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Hollywood on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. Dania Maxwell | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images More

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Oversight of the Federal Trade Commission, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 13, 2023. Kevin Wurm | Reuters The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued the largest anesthesiology provider in Texas, claiming the company has wielded monopoly power to drive

In this article PFE MRNA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT New vaccine COMIRNATY® by Pfizer, available at CVS Pharmacy in Eagle Rock, California. Irfan Khan | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images It’s déjà vu for some Americans looking for the latest Covid-19 vaccines. Certain people who were lucky enough to snag an appointment