Health, Fitness & Food

In this article WBA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tim Wentworth, CEO of Express Scripts.  David A. Grogan | CNBC Incoming Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth on Thursday briefly praised the company’s pharmacy staff, but made no mention of the three-day protest walkouts they held this week over poor working conditions. The walkouts reflect rising

Here’s a rapid-fire update on all stocks in Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust, the portfolio we use for the CNBC Investing Club. Jim ran through each stock Wednesday during our October Monthly Meeting. Apple (AAPL): Our “own it, don’t trade it” mantra on Apple has served us well over the years, and there’s been no change to that

In this article CI WBA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday praised the incoming CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, saying industry veteran Tim Wentworth is the right choice to lead the struggling pharmacy chain in its transition to offering more health-care services. “This guy is the real deal. I just

Broadcom (AVGO), Caterpillar (CAT) and Eli Lilly (LLY) are among the 15 Club stocks with a streak of annual dividend growth that Wall Street expects to continue in their current fiscal years. Long-term investors should look to own companies with a history of dividend growth instead of chasing stocks with high yields, Morgan Stanley strategists

In this article ABT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Abbott Chairman of the Board and CEO Robert B. Ford delivers a keynote address at CES 2022 at The Venetian Las Vegas on January 6, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller | Getty Images Abbott Laboratories CEO Robert Ford took the stage at the

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella listens to an audience member’s question during the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Bellevue, Washington, Nov. 30, 2016. Stephen Brashear | Getty Images News | Getty Images Microsoft on Tuesday announced new data and artificial intelligence products that aim to help

In this article WBA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Walgreens sign is displayed on the window of one of its stores in Hollywood, California, on March 9, 2023. Stefani Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Walgreens Boots Alliance has chosen veteran health care executive Tim Wentworth as the company’s new chief executive. Wentworth

Adenovirus (highly contagious virus causing lymphadenopathy symptomatizing swelling of the glands in the neck, accompanied by a cold, or pharyngitis, or bronchitis, sometimes also conjunctivitis, keratitis, or a combination of the two (keratoconjunctivitis). Bsip | Universal Images Group | Getty Images LONDON — A U.K. study showed that symptoms of a cold can linger well

We’re selling 15 shares of Humana (HUM) at roughly $497 each. Following Friday’s trade, Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust will own 85 shares of HUM, decreasing its weighting in the portfolio 1.53% to from 1.8%. Humana shares have finally clawed their way back to $500 each, recovering nearly all the losses incurred on that fateful day

In this article NVAX PFE MRNA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A health worker prepares a dose of the Novavax vaccine as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. Patrick Van Katwijk | Getty Images Americans can finally get their hands on

With the stock market deeply oversold this week, we put cash to work by picking stocks across a range of sectors including energy, technology and materials. We also added a former Club chipmaker to our Bullpen and upgraded a premium beer name to a buy rating. Finally, Friday’s market reversal helped us make good on

Striking Kaiser Permanente workers hold signs as they march in front of the Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center on October 06, 2023 in Vallejo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Kaiser Permanente workers on Friday threatened further strikes if executives don’t meet their demands over health-care staffing and job outsourcing. More than 75,000 Kaiser workers

Belly dancing, yoga in the forest, traditional Chinese medicine and meetings with a nutritionist. These are some of the activities that can be found at menopause retreats, a wellness trend carving a new niche in the tourism industry. Menopause retreats are tailored to help women navigate the different stages of perimenopause and menopause, and the

Kaiser Permanente employees, joined by Union members representing the workers, walk the picket line in Los Angeles, California on October 4, 2023.  Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers remained on strike for a second day after negotiators failed to reach an agreement to end a dispute

A Kaiser Permanente health care center is pictured in Anaheim, California, U.S., October 3, 2023 as more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers could go on strike from Oct. 4 to Oct. 7 across the United States.  Mike Blake | Reuters Workers at Kaiser Permanente — the nation’s largest health-care nonprofit organization — began a

Exhibit from court record: 2018 Red Ferrari Spider. Source: U.S. DOJ A Miami federal judge ordered a lab owner convicted of defrauding Medicare to forfeit more than $187 million worth of proceeds from the scam, including $30 million in cash, a 2018 Ferrari Spider and real estate, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. The lab

Novartis said in August that it plans to spin off its generics unit Sandoz to sharpen its focus on its patented prescription medicines. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Novartis has completed the spinoff of its generics and biosimilars business Sandoz, which is set to debut trading on the SIX Swiss Exchange on Wednesday. The

In this article NVAX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A vial labelled “Novavax V COVID-19 Vaccine” is seen in this illustration taken January 16, 2022.  Dado Ruvic | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized Novavax‘s updated Covid vaccine for emergency use in people ages 12 and up, putting the shot on

In this article BMY JNJ MRK AZN-GB NOV.N-CH NVS AMGN ABBV NOVO.B-DK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A pharmacist holds a bottle of the drug Eliquis, made by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, January 9, 2020. George Frey | Reuters All drugmakers of the first 10 medicines selected for Medicare drug

A sign is posted on the exterior of the Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center on September 08, 2023 in Vallejo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images More than 75,000 workers at the largest nonprofit private health-care provider in the United States are poised to strike Wednesday after negotiations failed to reach an agreement over the