Health, Fitness & Food

Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy weight loss drug has seen a meteoric rise in popularity.  Nurphoto | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K.’s health regulator on Tuesday approved the use of Novo Nordisk‘s Wegovy weight loss drug to reduce the risk of overweight and obese adults suffering from serious heart problems or strokes. The new approval from

Activists protest the price of prescription drug costs in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 6, 2022. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up. Good afternoon! The first round

In this article GOOGL META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Hands, tablet and doctor with body hologram, overlay and dna research for medical innovation on app. Medic man, nurse and mobile touchscreen for typing on anatomy study or 3d holographic ux in clinic Jacob Wackerhausen | Istock | Getty Images Dr. Scott Gottlieb is

In this article UNH NOVO.B-DK LLY 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 Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up. Good morning!

Photo: Jaromir Chalabala / Getty LONDON — The evidence linking smartphone use with mental health harms in children is growing and one grassroots organization in the U.K. is supporting parents who are refraining from giving their kids the devices. Smartphone Free Childhood, founded by Daisy Greenwell and Clare Fernyhough in February, set up various group

Mark using Synchron’s BCI  Courtesy: Synchron A 64-year-old named Mark has spent the last year learning how to control devices like his laptop and phone using a brain implant. And thanks to OpenAI, it’s gotten a whole lot easier to do.  The neurotech startup Synchron said Thursday it’s using OpenAI’s latest artificial intelligence models to

An operating room at SimVET Courtesy: SimVET Inside a sprawling $43 million Veterans Affairs facility equipped with operating rooms, intensive care units and an outpatient clinic, there are no patients. At least not any real ones.  The 53,000-square-foot building sits minutes away from the Orlando International Airport in Florida, and it’s called the National Center

The job market may have cooled a bit, but there are still far more job openings nationwide than there are people available to fill them. That means qualified workers are still a precious commodity. So, companies seeking to attract great employees like to set up shop in states that offer a great quality of life.

The Samsung Galaxy Ring has the ability to track various health metrics such as heart rate. It is Samsung’s first foray into the smart ring category of product as it hopes to keep users locked into its ecosystem of devices from smartwatches to smartphones. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC PARIS — Samsung launched the Galaxy Ring

In this article PFE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pfizer on Thursday said it will move forward with a once-daily version of its weight loss pill, danuglipron, after it saw “encouraging” data in an ongoing early-stage study. The company evaluated several once-daily formulations of the drug and identified one with “the most favorable profile”

In this article LLY NOVO.B-DK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Aykut Karahan | Istock | Getty Images Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up. Good afternoon! Several drugmakers are hurrying to capitalize on one of the next major innovations coming to the booming weight loss drug

In this article CI CVS UNH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan testifies during a hearing of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, May 15, 2024. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission is planning to sue three large

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk said Wednesday that his brain tech startup Neuralink hopes to implant its system in a second human patient within “the next week or so.” Executives also said the company is making changes to try and reduce the hardware problems it encountered with its first participant. Neuralink

A box of Ozempic and contents sit on a table in Dudley, North Tyneside, Britain, October 31, 2023.  George Frey | Reuters Novo Nordisk investors appeared unperturbed Thursday by a critical Harvard report that linked weight loss drugs to a rare eye condition. Semaglutide, which is present in weight loss drugs including Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic

In this article LLY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A sign with the company logo sits outside of the headquarters campus of Eli Lilly and Company on March 17, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Scott Olson | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Eli Lilly‘s Alzheimer’s drug donanemab, expanding the limited

Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up. Aamir Ahmed Khan, PhD, Principal Electrical Engineer for Paradromics, works on the Transceiver which connects to the brain implants.  Austin based Paradromics is developing a brain-computer interface to aide disabled and non-verbal patients with communication.  Julia Robinson

Anxiety symptoms vary widely from moodiness to lashing out.  Carol Yepes | Moment | Getty Images Slamming doors, throwing tantrums, unexpected crying, and one-sided conversations at the dinner table. If these are common occurrences in your household, you are probably raising a teenager. Teenagers are often perceived as entitled brats with little or no control

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. Rally in markets: Stocks were higher across the board Tuesday afternoon, led by the Nasdaq Composite , which added 0.7% and was on pace for back-to-back

In this article MASI Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Founder and CEO of Masimo Joe Kiani addresses a press conference in Bangalore on Jan. 2, 2017. Manjunath Kiran | AFP | Getty Images Despite voting for change at last year’s annual meeting, shareholders in medical device maker Masimo have seen their governance concerns go

In this article GDRX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mike Mergen | Bloomberg | Getty Images The cost of prescription medications in the U.S. has increased 37% since 2014, far surpassing the rate of inflation, according to data from drug savings company GoodRx. Though the price increases have slowed this year in comparison to