Health, Fitness & Food

Kaiser Permanente employees, joined by Union members representing the workers, walk the picket line in Los Angeles, California on October 4, 2023.  Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers remained on strike for a second day after negotiators failed to reach an agreement to end a dispute

Exhibit from court record: 2018 Red Ferrari Spider. Source: U.S. DOJ A Miami federal judge ordered a lab owner convicted of defrauding Medicare to forfeit more than $187 million worth of proceeds from the scam, including $30 million in cash, a 2018 Ferrari Spider and real estate, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. The lab

A Kaiser Permanente health care center is pictured in Anaheim, California, U.S., October 3, 2023 as more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers could go on strike from Oct. 4 to Oct. 7 across the United States.  Mike Blake | Reuters Workers at Kaiser Permanente — the nation’s largest health-care nonprofit organization — began a

In this article NVAX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A vial labelled “Novavax V COVID-19 Vaccine” is seen in this illustration taken January 16, 2022.  Dado Ruvic | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized Novavax‘s updated Covid vaccine for emergency use in people ages 12 and up, putting the shot on

A sign is posted on the exterior of the Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center on September 08, 2023 in Vallejo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images More than 75,000 workers at the largest nonprofit private health-care provider in the United States are poised to strike Wednesday after negotiations failed to reach an agreement over the

In this article BMY JNJ MRK AZN-GB NOV.N-CH NVS AMGN ABBV NOVO.B-DK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT 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 All drugmakers of the first 10 medicines selected for Medicare drug

Ever pack workout clothes for a vacation — only to unpack them, unworn, upon returning home? Perhaps the destination matters. Data from exercise apps, which track users’ physical locations and search history, show travelers tend to be more active in some locations more than others. Fitness app Strava shows travelers tend to exercise when they

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.