Health, Fitness & Food

In this article LLY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Eli Lilly & Co. Zepbound injection pen arranged in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Thursday, March 28, 2024.  Shelby Knowles | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Eli Lilly‘s blockbuster weight loss drug Zepbound for

Suki CEO Punit Singh Soni. Courtesy: Suki Health-care artificial intelligence startup Suki on Wednesday announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud as part of its push to expand beyond clinical documentation.  Through the partnership, Suki is building patient summary and Q&A features using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform, which allows developers to train, tune and

In this article LLY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City on Dec. 11, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said the active ingredient in Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug Zepbound is no longer

A person holds a sign while standing on the roadside near the McDonald’s restaurant where a suspect in the killing of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, U.S. December 9, 2024.  Matthew Hatcher | Reuters The deadly, targeted shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has

In this article MRK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Exterior view of the entrance to Merck headquarters on February 05, 2024 in Rahway, New Jersey. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Merck on Wednesday said it has snagged the rights to an experimental weight loss pill from Chinese drugmaker Hansoh Pharma, in a deal worth

In this article NOVO.B-DK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A box of Ozempic made by Novo Nordisk is seen at a pharmacy in London, Britain March 8, 2024. Hollie Adams | Reuters A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox.

In this article DXCM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Dexcom logo is seen on a smartphone screen and in the background. Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Dexcom on Tuesday announced an artificial intelligence feature for its Stelo continuous glucose monitor that gives users a personalized look into how

Shortly after the opening the bell, we will be buying 300 shares of Bristol Myers Squibb at roughly $56.50. Following the trade, Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust will own 1,200 shares of BMY, increasing its weighting in the portfolio to roughly 1.9% from about 1.4%. Wall Street’s stretch of bad breadth may have finally caught up

In this article WBA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT People walk by a Walgreens on Nov. 3, 2024 in Brookline, Massachusetts. Danielle DeVries | CNBC Shares of Walgreens jumped about 20% on Tuesday on a report that the company is in talks to sell itself to private equity firm Sycamore Partners.  Walgreens and Sycamore

In this article UNH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, testifies during the Senate Finance Committee hearing titled “Hacking America’s Health Care: Assessing the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack and What’s Next,” in the Dirksen Building in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 2024. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. |

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Thursday markets: Stocks are taking a breather after Wednesday’s big surge, especially in the Nasdaq Composite and the more narrow “Magnificent Seven” cohort. The yield on

In this article LLY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Patients will be able to access Zepbound single-dose vials at Ro Coutesy: Ro Direct-to-consumer health-care startup Ro on Wednesday said its platform will now offer more affordable single-dose vials of the weight loss drug Zepbound through a new partnership with Eli Lilly, which aims to

In this article CI CVS UNH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT UnitedHealth Group signage is displayed on a monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of major health-care companies fell as much as 5% on Wednesday as investors feared pressure from lawmakers and

A view of the logo of Novo Nordisk at the company’s office in Bagsvaerd, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark, March 8, 2024.  Tom Little | Reuters A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions.

A banner hanging from on overpass along the southbound lane of I-83 that says, “Deny Defend Depose Health Care 4 All.” Lloyd Fox | Baltimore Sun | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Major insurance stocks have fallen more than 6% since their closing prices last Tuesday, the day before the deadly shooting of Brian

In this article HIMS NVO NOVO.B-DK LLY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A production line of Wegovy injection pens for the Asian market at the Novo Nordisk A/S pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Hillerod, Denmark, on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images One interpretation of the law of supply and demand

In this article MCD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburger meal is seen at a McDonald’s on October 23, 2024 in the Flatbush neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.  Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on

In this article UNH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare Courtesy: UnitedHealth Group Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group‘s insurance unit, was fatally shot outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning in what appears to be “a brazen, targeted attack,” the New York Police Department said.

In this article LLY NOVO.B-DK GDRX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A combination image shows an injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, and boxes of Wegovy, made by Novo Nordisk.  Reuters Prescription fills for blockbuster weight loss drugs in the U.S. more than doubled in 2024, even with limited insurance coverage

In this article GEHC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Amgen logo is displayed outside Amgen headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California, on May 17, 2023. Mario Tama | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here