Health, Fitness & Food

In this article ILMN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Francis deSouza, chief executive officer of Illumina Inc., during a panel session on day three of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission on Monday ordered Illumina to

In this article EBS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Fentanyl forum attendees could visit a table where Narcan kits were being offered free at Northwood High School in Silver Spring, Maryland on February 25, 2023. Michael S. Williamson | The Washington Post | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved sales

In this article ILMN IEP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Carl Icahn speaking at Delivering Alpha in New York on Sept. 13, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Carl Icahn on Wednesday said Illumina should bring back its former CEO “immediately,” his latest move in a brewing proxy fight with the biotech company.   Icahn

A Johnson & Johnson building is shown in Irvine, California. Mike Blake | Reuters Johnson & Johnson on Wednesday said it’s ducking out of the RSV vaccine race, weeks after competitors Pfizer and GSK inched closer to launching the world’s first shot against the deadly virus.  J&J will stop working on its investigational RSV adult

In this article IEP ILMN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Carl Icahn speaking at Delivering Alpha in New York on Sept. 13, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Carl Icahn blasted Illumina for nearly doubling its CEO’s pay last year despite a dramatic drop in the biotech company’s market value since closing a controversial

Members of the media ask questions to U.S. President Joe Biden as he walks to the Marine One helicopter to depart for travel to Mississippi to view tornado damage, from the White House in Washington, U.S., March 31, 2023.  Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Biden administration on Friday appealed a Texas federal judge’s decision to

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 U.S. states on Saturday will start to kick as many as 15 million people off Medicaid

In this article ILMN IEP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Illumina on Thursday urged shareholders to reject Carl Icahn’s three board nominees at this year’s annual meeting, saying they would “threaten the progress” of the biotech company’s core business.  “Carl Icahn’s involvement with Illumina risks the long-term

A consultant analyzing a mammogram. Rui Vieira | PA Wire | Getty Images A federal judge on Thursday struck down an Obamacare mandate that required most private health insurance plans to cover preventive care such as certain cancer screenings and HIV prevention drugs. These services included screenings for breast, cervical and lung cancers; tests for

In this article NOVO.B-DK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT This photograph taken on February 23, 2023, in Paris, shows the anti-diabetic medication “Ozempic” (semaglutide) made by Danish pharmaceutical company “Novo Nordisk”. Joel Saget | AFP | Getty Images Patients taking blockbuster obesity drugs Ozempic or Wegovy will pack the pounds back on after they

Used boxes of Mifepristone pills, the first drug used in a medical abortion, fill a trash at Alamo Women’s Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., January 11, 2023.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Two federal judges are poised to issue rulings soon in dueling cases that could dramatically impact access to the abortion pill mifepristone. In

Cassie Jupin grew up wanting to be a nurse. She set her sights on a job at St. Peter’s Health Partners hospital in Albany, New York, and landed a position in the same maternity ward where she was born. “Knowing that I can come back to work every single day and work with a group

Frank Yiannas, former deputy commissioner of the office of food policy and response at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), speaks during a House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Ting Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. supply of infant formula industry is still vulnerable to

In this article WBA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A man walks near a Walgreens pharmacy on March 09, 2023 in New York City.  Leonardo Munoz | Corbis News | Getty Images Walgreens Boots Alliance on Tuesday said its quarterly profit declined more than 20%, driven by sharply lower Covid vaccine volumes and test

A Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) 642E centrifuge sits in a Community Clinic Inc. health center in Silver Spring, Maryland. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Laboratory Corporation of America will pay the U.S. $2.1 million to settle allegations that it overbilled the Department of Defense for genetic tests that involved children and

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 federal judge in Texas may try to invoke an obscure 19th-century law called

In this article PFE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A prescription for Pfizers Paxlovid tablets outside of his apartment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 25, 2022. (Photo by Rachel Wisniewski/For the Washington Post) Rachel Wisniewski | The Washington Post | Getty Images People who take Pfizer‘s Covid antiviral treatment Paxlovid shortly after infection may

In this article ILMN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Carl Icahn speaking at Delivering Alpha in New York on Sept. 13, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Carl Icahn on Friday alleged that Illumina‘s directors demanded extra personal liability insurance before the biotech company signed off on a $7.1 billion acquisition of cancer test

Abortion rights protester Caitlin Devore, dressed as a “handmaiden” crosses a street to join a a gathering to protest the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health case on June 24, 2022 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Natalie Behring | Getty Images Abortion is legal in Wyoming again, oddly enough as the result

In this article MRNA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT (The hearing is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if the video doesn’t automatically play at that time.) Moderna’s CEO, Stephane Bancel, is testifying Wednesday before the Senate health committee on pricing of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine. The Boston biotech