Health, Fitness & Food

A health-care worker fills out a Covid-19 Vaccination Record Card in the Bronx borough of New York. Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty Images Eighteen people, some of them doctors, were criminally charged with Covid-19 health-care fraud schemes that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from false billings and theft from federally-funded programs, the Department

Close-up of a yellow-fever mosquito biting human skin, it’s a culicidae vector of malaria, yellow fever, chikungunya, dengue and zika virus in Brazil, known locally as mosquito da dengue. Joao Paulo Burini | Moment | Getty Images Nigeria this week joined Ghana in provisionally approving a new malaria vaccine developed by scientists at the University

HIMSS conference attendees walk the exhibition floor Source: HIMSS Debates over artificial intelligence and its role in health care took center stage at the HIMSS Global Health Conference in Chicago this week, where more than 35,000 physicians, executives, engineers and health-care workers convened to discuss the latest advancements in health and technology.  Companies like Microsoft,

In this article NOVO.B-DK SAN-FR LLY CVS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, an insulin pen manufactured by the Novo Nordisk company is displayed on March 14, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images The top executives of the three drug companies that control 90%

Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, April 15, 2023.  Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the abortion pill mifepristone to remain broadly available as litigation plays out in a lower court. The high court’s decision Friday came in response

In this article SAN-FR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, insulin pens manufactured by the Novo Nordisk company are displayed on March 14, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Bipartisan Senate legislation introduced Friday would cap the price of insulin at $35 per month for people with private

In this article JNJ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, a container of Johnson and Johnson baby powder is displayed on April 05, 2023 in San Anselmo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday halted roughly 40,000 lawsuits that allege Johnson & Johnson‘s baby powder and

A box containing a Mifepristone tablet is seen at Blue Mountain Clinic in Missoula, Montana, U.S. February 28, 2023. REUTERS/Callaghan O’Hare Callaghan O’hare | Reuters A pharmaceutical company that distributes the majority of the U.S. supply of the abortion pill mifepristone sued the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday in an effort to keep its

Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, April 15, 2023.  Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday issued an order allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to remain on the market without restrictions until at least Friday. Alito’s decision punts a

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) before-the-bell Tuesday reported a strong first quarter, with sales up more than 5.5% and earnings eking out an annual increase. Shares of the Dow component and Club holding should not be losing 2.5% on these kinds of results. J & J’s first-quarter sales of $24.75 billion exceeded the Refinitv consensus estimate

The Janssen Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images International Covid vaccine sales helped spark Johnson & Johnson‘s revenue and earnings beat on Tuesday, but the company said it expects no sales from the shot moving forward.  “Regarding our Covid-19 vaccine, we do not anticipate material sales

In this article MRNA MRK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of Moderna fell Monday as Wall Street chewed over new trial results on the personalized cancer vaccine it is developing with Merck.  Merck’s shares were essentially flat. related investing news Wells Fargo says this little-known biotech

In this 2018 photo, mifepristone and misoprostol pills are provided at a Carafem clinic for medication abortions in Skokie, Illinois. Erin Hooley | Tribune News Service | Getty Images A federal appeals court has allowed the abortion pill mifepristone to remain on the U.S. market for now, but it imposed major restrictions on the medication

Mifepristone (Mifeprex), one of the two drugs used in a medication abortion, is displayed at the Women’s Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 15, 2022. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images A U.S. district judge in Washington state on Thursday said access to the abortion

Used boxes of mifepristone pills, the first drug used in a medical abortion, fill a trash can at Alamo Women’s Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jan. 11, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters A messy legal fight over the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone poses risks to the biopharma industry that

Abortion rights advocates rally outside the US Supreme Court on April 14, 2023, in Washington, DC, speaking out against abortion pill restrictions. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily blocked lower court rulings that imposed restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone. U.S. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of

U.S. abortion pill providers are scrambling to make backup plans as the Supreme Court decides whether to keep restrictions on the key drug mifepristone.  Some in-person clinics in New York, California and Kansas will offer mifepristone for now, but are preparing to provide an alternative abortion pill if a subsequent decision essentially bans the drug.

In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland.  Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The Biden administration and the abortion pill distributor Danco Laboratories on Friday asked the Supreme Court to block an order that threatens access to that medication, mifepristone, in

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit held at the Tampa Convention Center on July 22, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The Florida House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation that would ban most abortions after six weeks, when many women don’t know they are

Mifepristone (Mifeprex), one of the two drugs used in a medication abortion, is displayed at the Women’s Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 15, 2022. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images The abortion pill mifepristone will remain fully available in more than a dozen states