Health, Fitness & Food

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Oura, the company behind the smart ring that allows users to track a variety of biometric data, is adding new features around social sharing and sleep tracking as the battle among tech companies to land and keep trackers on the wrists and fingers of consumers

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon Web Services logo at the Web Summit in Lisbon. Henrique Casinhas | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Just as the periodic table is foundational to chemistry and the Human Genome Project revolutionized modern genetics, researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) arrives to the U.S. Capitol Building on June 01, 2023 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday called on the U.S. Health and Human Services Department to take action to ensure seniors can actually afford the expensive Alzheimer’s treatment Leqembi. Sanders, who chairs the Senate

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the Google I/O developers conference at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, May 10, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Google’s cloud business is expanding its use of new artificial intelligence technologies

Rep. Nanette Barragan (D-CA) speaks alongside US Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg after a tour of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach during a press conference at the Port of Long Beach on January 11, 2022 in Long Beach, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Two Democratic lawmakers are

In this article MRK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images Global drugmaker Merck on Tuesday sued the Biden administration over Medicare‘s new powers to substantially reduce drug prices for seniors under the Inflation Reduction Act, the opening salvo in the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to weaken the program. In

Asbe | Istock | Getty Images Moderna‘s experimental cancer vaccine, used in combination with Merck‘s Keytruda, reduced the risk of the most deadly form of skin cancer spreading to other parts of the body in a clinical trial, according to the midstage trial results published on Monday. Moderna’s cancer vaccine reduced the risk of melanoma

In this article DD MMM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Just outside of Bangor, Maine — the hometown of renowned horror author Stephen King — more than 500 students, faculty and staff arrive at Hermon High School each day.  But since November, they can no longer drink the water. All the fountains are taped

Worker labors on a production line at factory of Qilu Pharmaceutical (Hainan) Co Ltd on February 11, 2022 in Haikou, Hainan Province of China. Su Bikun | VCG | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has authorized the temporary importation of an unapproved chemotherapy drug from China in an effort to ease an acute

WINDSOR, ON – MAY 8: Registered Pharmacy Technician Dawn Deslippe carefully labels Diane’s dose of Carboplatin, one of two chemo drugs she will receive on this visit. Every step of the process involves verification from at least two people. The hospital now prepares the chemo drugs themselves rather than getting them pre-mixed. Diane Marley, 48

An MRI scan of an Alzheimer’s patient’s brain. GSO Images | Getty Images Medicare Part B will cover treatments for Alzheimer’s disease that receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, according to the federal agency that administers the program for seniors. Anyone who has Medicare Part B and meets “eligibility criteria” will be covered for

Luis Alvarez | Digitalvision | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a vaccine made by Pfizer that protects adults ages 60 and older from respiratory syncytial virus, a common pathogen that kills and hospitalizes thousands of seniors every year. Pfizer, in a statement Wednesday, said it expects to have supply available

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has tested positive again for Covid-19 Thursday, a week and a half after his initial diagnosis, in what his doctors say is a case of rebound infection. Martin Ollman | Getty Images News | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has tested positive again for

Damar Hamlin’s on-field cardiac arrest at a “Monday Night Football” game in January was a moment of national trauma that occurred on live television. His recovery from the near-death experience and his poise as an individual ultimately inspired the nation. Still, his decision to play in the National Football League again after the personal medical

South_agency | E+ | Getty Images Scientists funded by the federal government have proposed a definition of long Covid based on symptoms identified in a large study published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The definition is based on 12 symptoms that most separate people with long Covid six months or more

In this article IEP ILMN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Activist investor Carl Icahn on Thursday won enough support from Illumina shareholders to oust the biotech company’s board chair. Shareholders booted Chairman John Thompson. An Illumina spokesperson said a new chair will be chosen in the next

In this article ABT DXCM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 37 million people in the U.S. have diabetes. That’s a little more than 11% of the entire population.  A diabetic’s body doesn’t make enough or any insulin at all. Those with the disease

Neuralink logo displayed on a phone screen, a silhouette of a paper in shape of a human face and a binary code displayed on a screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on December 10, 2021. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Neuralink, the neurotech startup co-founded by

In this article PFE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment pill Paxlovid is seen in boxes, at Misericordia hospital in Grosseto, Italy, February 8, 2022. Jennifer Lorenzini | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday granted full approval to Pfizer’s Covid antiviral pill, Paxlovid, for adults who are at high

Callista Images | Image Source | Getty Images New HIV infections declined modestly in the U.S. over a four-year period but the nation is far from reaching its goal of ending the epidemic, according to the most recent data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday. The overwhelming majority of people