Health, Fitness & Food

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

Vials containing the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are displayed before being used at a mobile vaccine clinic, in Valparaiso, Chile, January 3, 2022. Rodrigo Garrido | Reuters Shares of BioNTech on Monday slid by more than 6% in morning trading after the German drugmaker shared a gloomy 2023 sales outlook for its

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

In this article SAN-FR REGN SNY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A logo on the Sanofi exhibition space at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France June 15, 2022. Benoit Tessier | Reuters Shares of Sanofi and Regeneron both jumped by more than

In this article BIIB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A pedestrian walks past Biogen Inc. headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on Monday, June 7, 2021. Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration’s independent panel of advisors on Wednesday voted against the effectiveness of Biogen’s investigational ALS drug for a

In this article MRNA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel on Wednesday defended the company’s plans to hike the price of its Covid shots fivefold, deflecting pressure at a Senate hearing to abandon the increase while taking barbs over his compensation. Moderna plans to raise the list price of its vaccine

A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images People who caught Covid-19 before they were vaccinated had a weaker immune response to the shots than those who

Candida auris is a yeast responsible for many infections. Resistant to most anti-fungal drugs, this fungus causes several deaths worldwide. BSIP | Universal Images Group | Getty Images A fungus that is often resistant to drugs has spread at an “alarming rate” through health-care facilities in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a reception celebrating Nowruz in the East Room at the White House in Washington, March 20, 2023. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Joe Biden on Monday signed legislation requiring the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information on any possible links between a lab in

In this article BIIB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Biogen facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Brian Snyder | Reuters U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff on Monday said Biogen’s investigational ALS drug may have a “clinical benefit” on a rare and aggressive form of the disease, despite failing a broader late-stage clinical trial last

In this article NOVO.B-DK LLY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Novo Nordisk Inc. NovoLog brand insulin pens are arranged for a photograph in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Friday, April 5, 2019. Alex Flynn | Bloomberg | Getty Images Novo Nordisk on Tuesday announced plans to slash the price of several