Health, Fitness & Food

January was great for the stock market. Benchmark gauges notched all-time highs, as stocks charged through a busy earnings season. The S & P 500 set records for five consecutive sessions late in the month. The Dow and Nasdaq 100 , weighted more heavily on Big Tech, closed at milestone levels, too. The Nasdaq ,

A sign for Publicis Groupe SA is seen at their headquarters in Paris, France, on Sunday, July 28, 2013.  Balint Porneczi | Bloomberg | Getty Images The health-care division of French ad giant Publicis agreed to pay $350 million to settle claims that its past marketing efforts for drugmakers helped fuel America’s opioid crisis, U.S.

Philip O’Keefe, one of Synchron’s patients in the SWITCH clinical trial, was the first person in the world to tweet using a BCI device. Source: Synchron Neurotech startup Synchron is ramping up production of its flagship brain-computer interface to prepare for commercial demand, as the company inches closer to bringing its device to market.  Synchron

We’re selling 95 shares of GE Healthcare at roughly $74. Following Wednesday’s trade, Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust will own 1,150 shares of GEHC, reducing its weighting to 2.75% from 2.97%. The small trim we’re making in GE Healthcare with the stock up slightly in an otherwise rough tape does not change our belief in this

In this article BIIB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Biogen headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images Biogen on Wednesday said it will discontinue the sale and development of its older and highly controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm to refocus the company’s efforts to treat

In this article VRTX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A sign hangs in front of the world headquarters of Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston on Oct. 23, 2019. Brian Snyder | Reuters Vertex Pharmaceuticals on Tuesday said its experimental painkiller, which is being tested as an alternative to addictive opioids, significantly decreased post-surgery pain in

Getty Images American workers are spending too much time looking at screens. More than 104 million people in the U.S., including nearly 70% of people working office jobs, spend upwards of seven hours a day looking at screens, according to a Tuesday report from the Deloitte Economics Institute and the American Optometric Association. As a

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk‘s neurotech startup Neuralink implanted its device in a human for the first time on Sunday, and the patient is “recovering well,” the billionaire said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday. The company is developing a brain implant that aims to help

In this article MRK BMY JNJ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The New York Stock Exchange welcomes Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) to the podium.  NYSE Big pharmaceutical companies such as Bristol Myers Squibb, Merck and Johnson & Johnson face a looming threat that will put tens of billions of dollars in sales at

In this article MRK BMY JNJ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT US Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, speaks during a rally by the People’s Action, protesting pharmaceutical companies’ lobbying against allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices, outside Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) headquarters in Washington, DC, September 21, 2021.

In this article HUM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Signage is displayed on a Humana Inc. office building in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. Humana is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 6. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Humana plummeted on

In this article CVS TSN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tyson Foods Inc., sign at Tyson headquarters in Springdale, Ark. April L. Brown | AP Tyson Foods will become one of the first Fortune 100 companies to stop using the nation’s traditional large pharmacy benefits managers, as it looks to cut spending on high-cost

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 Johnson & Johnson has reached a tentative settlement to resolve an investigation by more than 40 states into claims the company misled patients about the safety of its

In this article JNJ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The stock trading graph of Johnson & Johnson is seen on a smartphone screen. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings and revenue that narrowly edged out Wall Street’s expectations as sales in the company’s

In this article GILD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of Gilead fell more than 10% on Monday after a key drug from the company did not significantly extend the lives of patients with a certain lung cancer in a late-stage trial. The results are a blow

As the old Wall Street adage goes, health care tends to underperform the stock market in presidential election years — and in recent cycles, that’s been true. But, there’s reason to believe this year that many health-related stocks, led by Eli Lilly , could defy historical convention. The S & P 500 Health Care Sector

In this article VKTX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Still life of Wegovy an injectable prescription weight loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. It should be used with a weight loss plan and physical activity.  Michael Siluk | UCG | Getty Images Drugmakers have been scrambling to join a two-horse race to

Health care may be a real challenger to tech this year, a business that can actually grow faster than most of tech and has the possibility of a comeback from the Covid straitjacket that so many of these companies got caught up in. The pandemic obscured so much of the growth as Abbott Labs ,

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin testifies before a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan at the Rayburn House Office building on Capitol Hill on September 29, 2021 in Washington, DC.  Olivier Douliery | Afp | Getty Images Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is still hospitalized following doctors’

In this article PFE ADCT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Medical personnel use a mammogram to examine a woman’s breast for breast cancer. Hannibal Hanschke | dpa | Picture Alliance | Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO — An established but promising group of cancer drugs was a red-hot market in 2023, and more companies could