Health, Fitness & Food

In this article PFE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Resurgence of COVID-19 symptoms in patients treated with the drug Paxlovid appeared far more common than has been reported, doctors found in a study detailed in the New England Journal of Medicine. Chris Sweda | Chicago Tribune | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Federal

In this article NOVO.B-DK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, a box of the diabetes drug Ozempic rests on a pharmacy counter on April 17, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.  Mario Tama | Getty Images People on diabetes and weight loss drugs such as Novo Nordisk‘s Ozempic and Wegovy should stop

Nike CEO John Donahoe poses for a photograph during a visit to Nike European Logistics Campus in Laakdal, June 7, 2023. Jonas Roosens | Afp | Getty Images For leaders in corporate America, sleep is often the rare luxury they don’t have and can’t buy. Success, especially early success, rarely comes without pulling some all-nighters,

Hundreds of 1199SEIU health care workers staged a rally and sit to block 3rd avenue where some were arrested. They protested against health care cuts in Governor Kathy Hochuls budget on Medicare. Lev Radin | Lightrocket | Getty Images Medicare on Friday said it will allow pharmaceutical companies to publicly discuss the program’s historic drug

Alex Zhavoronkov, left, founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, and Feng Ren, co-CEO and chief scientific officer, at the company’s robotics lab in Suzhou, China. Source: Insilico Medicine The first drug fully generated by artificial intelligence entered into clinical trials with human patients this week. Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong-based biotech startup with more than

Hepatitis C virus BSIP | UIG | Getty Images The overwhelming majority of people in the U.S. who have tested positive for hepatitis C have not been cured due to the high cost of oral antiviral treatments and obstacles imposed by insurance plans, federal health officials said on Thursday. Hepatitis C is often referred to

In this article NOVO.B-DK LLY PFE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Eli Lilly & Co. logo is seen on a box of insulin medication in this arranged photograph at a pharmacy in Princeton, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Drugmakers are jockeying to capitalize on the next major innovation coming to

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaking on June 22, 2023 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The Justice Department on Wednesday charged 78 people with $2.5 billion in health-care fraud. The DOJ, in a press release, said the defendants allegedly defrauded programs used to take care of elderly and disabled people. In some

In this article REGN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT View of Corporate and Research and Development Headquarters of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals on Old Saw Mill River Road in Tarrytown, New York. Lev Radin | LightRocket | Getty Images Shares of Regeneron fell nearly 9% on Tuesday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to

In this article WBA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT People make their way near a Walgreens pharmacy on March 09, 2023 in New York City.  Leonardo Munoz | Corbis News | Getty Images Walgreens on Tuesday slashed its full-year earnings guidance as it fell short of Wall Street expectations for its fiscal third quarter

In this article LLY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Eli Lilly and Company, Pharmaceutical company headquarters in Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain. Cristina Arias | Cover | Getty Images Eli Lilly’s experimental drug helped patients lose up to 24% of their weight after almost a year, the highest reduction seen in the obesity treatment space to

The NHS has come under increasing pressure over recent years due to higher demand for services and funding and personnel shortages — issues further exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Bloomberg | Getty Images Chronic underinvestment in the U.K.’s National Health Service means Britons are likely to die sooner from serious diseases than patients in other

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence gestures during the “National Celebrate Life Day Rally” commemorating the first anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs v Women’s Health Organization case, overturning the landmark Roe v Wade abortion decision, in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2023.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Two

In this article GSK-GB PFE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Respiratory syncytial virus vial. Manjurul | Istock | Getty Images Vaccinating one million adults ages 65 and above with a single RSV shot from Pfizer or GSK may prevent thousands of hospitalizations over two seasons of the virus, according to a Centers for Disease

President Joe Biden signs an executive order in support of Joining Forces, the initiative to support military and veteran families, caregivers, and survivors on June 9, 2023 at Fort Liberty, North Carolina. Eros Hoagland | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Friday will sign a wide-ranging executive order aimed at protecting and increasing access to

New York and London are some of the most desirable cities to live in due to the amount of job opportunities and the vibrant entertainment options — but residents are paying a premium. New York tied with Singapore as the most expensive cities in the world in 2022, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Worldwide

Governor Kathy Hochul holds media availability press conference and makes an announcement on abortion rights at the office on 633 3rd Avenue. Governor Hochul updated the media on the status of the COVID-19 pandemic in the state, announced more funding to provide abortion on demand, updated on the situation with monkeypox, and invited businesses around

Array of Precision Neuroscience Source: Precision Neuroscience It happened so fast that Craig Mermel missed it.  He was standing in a busy operating room in West Virginia, waiting for a surgeon to place Precision Neuroscience’s neural implant system onto a conscious patient’s brain for the first time. Mermel, the president and chief product officer at

In this article MRNA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A vial and a medical syringe seen displayed in front of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Moderna biotechnology company’s logos. Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket | Getty Images Moderna on Thursday applied for U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of the biotech company’s updated

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading, April 10, 2023. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The pharmaceutical industry’s largest lobbying group and two other organizations Wednesday sued the Biden administration over Medicare’s new powers to slash drug prices for seniors under the Inflation Reduction Act.  Pharmaceutical Research