Biogen to cut 1,000 jobs to save costs as company prepares to launch Leqembi

Biogen to cut 1,000 jobs to save costs as company prepares to launch Leqembi

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Biogen facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Brian Snyder | Reuters Biogen said on Tuesday that he expected to cut about 1,000 jobsor about 11% of its workforce to save costs as a biotechnology company is gearing up to launch its newly approved Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi. It’s the … Read more

Johnson & Johnson will reduce its stake in Kenvue by at least 80% through an exchange offer

Johnson & Johnson will reduce its stake in Kenvue by at least 80% through an exchange offer

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Kenvue, a unit of Johnson & Johnson’s Healthcare. CANJSKA PHOTOGRAPHY | Future Publishing | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson said on Monday that it plans to cut by at least 80% your share at Kenvue, a consumer health company spun out as a standalone company earlier … Read more

Pfizer says the tornado did not cause major damage to drug manufacturing areas at the North Carolina facility

Pfizer says the tornado did not cause major damage to drug manufacturing areas at the North Carolina facility

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this aerial photo, damage is seen at the Pfizer pharmaceutical plant after a tornado hit the facility two days earlier on July 21, 2023, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Sean Rayford | Getty Images Pfizer said on Friday that no major damage is seen on … Read more

Sanofi expects to launch the RSV infant vaccine before the respiratory virus season this fall

Sanofi expects to launch the RSV infant vaccine before the respiratory virus season this fall

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The doctor injects the vaccine to the boy Karl Tapales | A moment | Getty Images Sanofi she is expecting her baby RSV recording that will be in the US before the respiratory virus season this fall, a company spokesman said Friday. The Food and Drug … Read more

Kenvue CEO says consumers are spending on branded health products even as they pull back in other areas

Kenvue CEO says consumers are spending on branded health products even as they pull back in other areas

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Thibaut Mongon, CEO of Kenvue Inc., Johnson & Johnson’s consumer health business, speaks during an interview to celebrate its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), May 4, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Most consumers have reduced consumption as inflation squeezes their wallets, but they … Read more

Johnson & Johnson investors may soon swap their shares for Kenvue stock — here’s what you need to know

Johnson & Johnson investors may soon swap their shares for Kenvue stock — here’s what you need to know

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Thibaut Mongon, CEO and Paul Ruh CFO of Kenvue Inc., a Johnson & Johnson consumer health company, pose together during the company’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., May 4, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Johnson & Johnson said Thursday … Read more

Kenvue highest earnings estimates in J&J spinoff’s first quarterly report since IPO

Kenvue highest earnings estimates in J&J spinoff’s first quarterly report since IPO

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Kenvue, a unit of Johnson & Johnson’s Healthcare. CANJSKA PHOTOGRAPHY | Future Publishing | Getty Images Kenvue reported second-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings beat expectations on Thursday in the consumer health company’s first quarterly report since exiting Johnson & Johnson two months ago. The company also … Read more

Johnson & Johnson beats earnings, raises full-year guidance as medical technology sales rise

Johnson & Johnson beats earnings, raises full-year guidance as medical technology sales rise

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo illustration, a stock trading chart of Johnson and Johnson is seen on a smartphone screen. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson on Thursday reported second-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that beat Wall Street expectations and lifted … Read more

Pfizer’s B flu vaccine for babies shows encouraging results in mid-stage trial

Pfizer’s B flu vaccine for babies shows encouraging results in mid-stage trial

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Streptococcus agalactiae bacteria responsible for vaginal and urinary tract infections and neonatal infections, including meningitis and septicemia. Optical microscopy view. Cavallini James | BSIP | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Pfizer said on Wednesday that it is experimental the vaccine targeting a potentially deadly bacterial … Read more

Medicare is proposing to end the restriction on PET scans used to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease

Medicare is proposing to end the restriction on PET scans used to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Jay Reinstein, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, sits on a bed after a PET scan at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington on June 20, 2023. Michael Robinson Chávez | The Washington Post | Getty Images Medicare plans to expand its coverage of PET scans used … Read more

Johnson & Johnson is suing the Biden administration over Medicare drug price negotiations

Johnson & Johnson is suing the Biden administration over Medicare drug price negotiations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pavlo Gončar | LightRocket | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson sued the Biden administration on Tuesday over new Medicare powers to lower drug prices, becoming the third drug company to challenge the law’s controversial inflation-reduction provision. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in New Jersey, … Read more

Novartis shares jump after the drugmaker raised full-year guidance and launched a $15 billion buyback

Novartis shares jump after the drugmaker raised full-year guidance and launched a  billion buyback

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Novartis announced in August that it plans to spin off its Sandoz generics unit to focus more on its patented prescription drugs. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Novartis shares jumped on Tuesday after the Swiss drugmaker raised its full-year guidance to strong selling drugs and … Read more

Nearly 3 million people have dropped their Medicaid coverage, though many may still be eligible

Nearly 3 million people have dropped their Medicaid coverage, though many may still be eligible

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Supporters hold Save Medicaid signs during a news conference by Senate Democrats at the Capitol with disability advocates opposing the Republican Graham-Cassidy health care bill. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Nearly 3 million people have been excluded from Medicaid since protections against … Read more

FDA approves AstraZeneca, Sanofi vaccine to protect infants and toddlers from RSV

FDA approves AstraZeneca, Sanofi vaccine to protect infants and toddlers from RSV

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Blood sample for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) test. Jarun011 | Istock | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration approved it on Monday AstraZeneca and Sanofi‘s vaccine that protects infants and toddlers against respiratory syncytial virus, the leading cause of infant hospitalization in the US Nirsevimab … Read more

Eli Lilly expects an FDA decision on the Alzheimer’s treatment with donanemab by the end of the year

Eli Lilly expects an FDA decision on the Alzheimer’s treatment with donanemab by the end of the year

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eli Lilly and Company, pharmaceutical company headquarters in Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain. Cristina Arias | Cover | Getty Images Eli Lilly said Monday that it has applied for full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, donanemaband expects the agency … Read more

Insurance may not cover the over-the-counter birth control drug Opill

Insurance may not cover the over-the-counter birth control drug Opill

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The undated picture shows a package of Opill daily contraceptive. Perrigo | via Reuters The first birth control pills sold over the counter in the U.S. could remain out of reach for some women and girls because health insurance plans don’t cover the drug over the … Read more

UnitedHealth stock jumps on top earnings estimates despite rising health care costs

UnitedHealth stock jumps on top earnings estimates despite rising health care costs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Representatives talk to customers at a UnitedHealthcare store in Queens, New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images UnitedHealth Group’The stock price jumped on Friday after the healthcare conglomerate’s report second quarter revenue and adjusted earnings which nevertheless exceeded Wall Street expectations rising medical costs. … Read more

The FDA says the soda sweetener aspartame is safe, which disagrees with the WHO’s finding of a possible link to cancer

The FDA says the soda sweetener aspartame is safe, which disagrees with the WHO’s finding of a possible link to cancer

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Cans of PepsiCo’s Pepsi Zero Sugar soda are displayed for an edited photo taken in Tiskilwa, Illinois, on Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images The US Food and Drug Administration disagrees World Health Organization finding that the widely used soda sweetener … Read more

Eli Lilly to buy obesity drug maker Versanis for $1.9 billion

Eli Lilly to buy obesity drug maker Versanis for .9 billion

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eli Lilly and Company, pharmaceutical company headquarters in Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain. Cristina Arias | Cover | Getty Images Eli Lilly said on Friday that he would to acquire Versanis, a private company manufacturer of obesity drugsfor up to $1.93 billion to increase the pharmaceutical giant’s stake … Read more

The WHO says the soda sweetener aspartame can cause cancer, but is safe within certain limits

The WHO says the soda sweetener aspartame can cause cancer, but is safe within certain limits

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A supermarket can of Diet Coke, an artificial sweetener commonly used in thousands of products including diet sodas, ice cream and chewing gum, is to be classified as a potential cancer risk to humans, according to reports. Yui Mok | Pa Pictures | Getty Images The … Read more

Senator Warren says uninsured Americans are paying high costs for insulin, which Eli Lilly promised a $25 price tag.

Senator Warren says uninsured Americans are paying high costs for insulin, which Eli Lilly promised a  price tag.

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eli Lilly and Company’s pharmaceutical manufacturing facility is pictured at 50 ImClone Drive in Branchburg, New Jersey on March 5, 2021. Mike Segar | Reuters On average, uninsured Americans pay nearly $98 per vial Eli Lillyof generic insulin, also by company promised to cut retail price … Read more

Biden administration to provide free covid vaccines to uninsured Americans this fall through the end of 2024

Biden administration to provide free covid vaccines to uninsured Americans this fall through the end of 2024

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker prepares a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine at the vaccination clinic at the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Biden administration announced Thursday program provide free of charge Vaccines for covid … Read more

Biden administration asks Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax for ‘reasonable’ prices of updated covid vaccines

Biden administration asks Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax for ‘reasonable’ prices of updated covid vaccines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A nurse prepares Pfizer vaccine doses on Dec. 30, 2021, during a COVID-19 vaccination event at Josephine’s Southern Cooking Restaurant in Chatham, Illinois. Brian Cassella | News Tribune | Getty Images The Biden administration made the call on Thursday Pfizer, Modern and Novavax for their price … Read more

FDA approves first over-the-counter birth control pill

FDA approves first over-the-counter birth control pill

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE HRA Pharma expects a final decision from the FDA this summer on its application to sell the over-the-counter drug Opill, generically called norgestrel. Source: Perrigo Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first over-the-counter birth control pillsa landmark decision that will enable more women and … Read more

The Chamber of Commerce is asking a judge to block Medicare drug price negotiations before Oct. 1

The Chamber of Commerce is asking a judge to block Medicare drug price negotiations before Oct. 1

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The seal of the US Chamber of Commerce is under restoration at its headquarters in Washington, DC Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked a federal judge in Ohio on Wednesday to block Medicare’s new powers to negotiate drug prices … Read more

Nvidia invests $50 million in AI drug discovery biotech company Recursion

Nvidia invests  million in AI drug discovery biotech company Recursion

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A masked man walks past the Nvidia logo in Taipei, Taiwan. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Chip manufacturer Nvidia will invest $50 million Recursion Pharmaceuticals accelerate the development of biotechnology companies artificial intelligence models for drug discovery, the companies announced Wednesday. Recursion’s shares jumped … Read more

Ilumina received a record fine for striking a deal with Grail without EU regulatory approval

Ilumina received a record fine for striking a deal with Grail without EU regulatory approval

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images European Union regulators are being fined on Wednesday Illumina a record 432 million euros ($476 million) to complete the acquisition of the company developer of Grail Cancer Tests without first obtaining regulatory approval. The European Commission’s fine is 10% … Read more

EU expands Wegovy, Ozempic study on suicide risks to include other weight loss and diabetes drugs

EU expands Wegovy, Ozempic study on suicide risks to include other weight loss and diabetes drugs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo, boxes of the diabetes drug Ozempic sit on a pharmacy counter on April 17, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The European Union medicines regulator announced on Tuesday that it expanded the investigation in the risk of suicidal thoughts … Read more

A few patients continue to take weight-loss drugs like Wegovy after a year, but medical costs rise for all

A few patients continue to take weight-loss drugs like Wegovy after a year, but medical costs rise for all

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A selection of injection pens for the weight loss drug Wegovy are shown in this March 31, 2023 photo in Chicago, Illinois. Jim Vondruška | Reuters Prescribed only about a third of patients weight loss drugs such as Novo Nordiskinjection of hits Wegovy resumed taking a … Read more

White House unveils plan to end fentanyl threat with xylazine

White House unveils plan to end fentanyl threat with xylazine

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, are displayed outside a news conference at the New York Attorney General’s office regarding a major drug bust, September 23, 2016. Drew Angerer | Getty Images The Biden administration unveiled a plan Tuesday to address the growing threat fentanyl … Read more

Novavax shares surge 20% after company obtains $350 million from Canada for unused Covid vaccinations

Novavax shares surge 20% after company obtains 0 million from Canada for unused Covid vaccinations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Nikos Pekiaridis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Stock chart iconStock chart icon Novavax shares jumped on news of a settlement payment from the Canadian government. It’s unclear how many doses of Novavax’s jab — its only commercially available product after 35 years — went unused. Under … Read more

Medicare will pay for Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi. What patients and doctors need to know

Medicare will pay for Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi.  What patients and doctors need to know

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi is seen in this undated photo of a handout obtained by Reuters on January 20, 2023. Eisai | via Reuters Medicare agreed to pay for Alzheimer’s treatment Leqembia major turning point for patients diagnosed with early stages of the disease. Leqembi is … Read more

Sales of Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi may be slow at first but could pick up in 2024

Sales of Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi may be slow at first but could pick up in 2024

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Jay Reinstein, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, receives an injection so he can have a PET scan on June 20, 2023 at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. Michael Robinson Chávez | The Washington Post | Getty Images Sales on Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi may be … Read more

FDA approves Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, paving the way for broader Medicare coverage

FDA approves Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, paving the way for broader Medicare coverage

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, a key decision that is expected to expand access to the expensive drug for older Americans. Medicare he promised to start covering Leqembi, under certain conditions, on the same day FDA approve antibody treatment. … Read more

Bill Ackman explains why he embraced RFK Jr.’s skepticism. regarding covid vaccines

Bill Ackman explains why he embraced RFK Jr.’s skepticism.  regarding covid vaccines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Bill Ackman Scott Mlyn | CNBC Bill Ackman said 2021 that postponing Covid vaccinations for older Americans “seems like genocide.” Today, an influential hedge fund manager and investor is expanding on Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s revealed anti-vaccine views. Ackman does not deny his … Read more

Moderna enters into an agreement to develop mRNA drugs in China

Moderna enters into an agreement to develop mRNA drugs in China

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Nikos Pekiaridis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Modern said on Wednesday that it had struck a research, development and production deal with Chinese officials transfer RNA drugs in the country, despite rising tensions between the US and China. The Massachusetts-based biotech company has signed a memorandum … Read more

Medicare will allow drug companies to publicly discuss drug price negotiations

Medicare will allow drug companies to publicly discuss drug price negotiations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Hundreds of 1199SEIU health workers staged a rally and sit-in to block 3rd Avenue, where some were arrested. They were protesting health care cuts in Gov. Kathy Hochuls’ Medicare budget. Lev Radin | Lightrocket | Getty Images Medicare said Friday it will allow drug companies to … Read more

People should stop taking Ozempic, Wegovy before surgery, a group of doctors says

People should stop taking Ozempic, Wegovy before surgery, a group of doctors says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this file photo, a box of the diabetes drug Ozempic sits on the counter of a pharmacy on April 17, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images People on drugs for diabetes and weight loss such as Novo NordiskOzempic and Wegovy should … Read more

A cure for hepatitis C does not reach the vast majority of patients due to financial barriers

A cure for hepatitis C does not reach the vast majority of patients due to financial barriers

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Hepatitis C virus BSIP | UIG | Getty Images The vast majority of people in the U.S. who test positive for hepatitis C have not been cured because of the high cost of oral antiviral treatments and barriers posed by insurance plans, federal health officials said … Read more

Former Pfizer employee accused of illegal trading based on unpublished data on Covid pill trial

Former Pfizer employee accused of illegal trading based on unpublished data on Covid pill trial

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Recurrence of COVID-19 symptoms in patients treated with Paxlovid was much more common than reported, doctors found in a study detailed in the New England Journal of Medicine. Chris Sweda | Chicago Tribune | News Tribune | Getty Images Federal authorities charged the former Pfizer employee … Read more

CDC recommends Pfizer, GSK RSV vaccines for adults 60 years and older

CDC recommends Pfizer, GSK RSV vaccines for adults 60 years and older

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Vial of respiratory syncytial virus. Manjurul | Istock | Getty Images Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended that adults 60 years of age and older receive one dose RSV vaccines from Pfizer and GSK after consultation with doctors. Outgoing CDC Director Rochelle Walensky … Read more

The Justice Department has indicted 78 people in a $2.5 billion health care fraud scheme

The Justice Department has indicted 78 people in a .5 billion health care fraud scheme

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE US Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks on June 22, 2023 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The Justice Department on Wednesday indicted 78 people in a $2.5 billion health care fraud scheme. DOJ, in the press release, said the defendants allegedly defrauded programs for … Read more

As drugmakers race to develop the next big diet pill, Eli Lilly may have a head start

As drugmakers race to develop the next big diet pill, Eli Lilly may have a head start

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eli Lilly & Co.’s logo is featured in this edited photo of a pharmacy in Princeton, Illinois. seen on the insulin box. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Drug manufacturers are scrambling to take advantage of the next big innovation coming in the bestseller of … Read more

Regeneron shares fell after FDA rejects high-dose treatment for eye disease

Regeneron shares fell after FDA rejects high-dose treatment for eye disease

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A view of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ corporate headquarters and R&D headquarters on Old Saw Mill River Road in Tarrytown, New York. Lev Radin | LightRocket | Getty Images Company shares Regeneron fell nearly 9% on Tuesday after the US Food and Drug Administration denied approval a higher-dose … Read more

More than $200 billion in Covid loans could be stolen by fraudsters, watchdog says

More than 0 billion in Covid loans could be stolen by fraudsters, watchdog says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE (L-R) Kevin Chambers, director of anti-fraud, COVID-19, Department of Justice; Hannibal “Mike” Ware, Inspector General, Small Business Administration; Michael Horowitz, Chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee; and Roy D. Dotson Jr., Acting Special Agent in Charge, National Coordinator for Pandemic Fraud Enforcement, United States Secret … Read more

Walgreens cuts earnings forecast due to lower consumer spending and drop in demand for health care due to Covid

Walgreens cuts earnings forecast due to lower consumer spending and drop in demand for health care due to Covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People approach a Walgreens pharmacy on March 9, 2023 in New York City. Leonardo Munoz | Corbis News | Getty Images Walgreens cut its full-year profit guidance on Tuesday after missing Wall Street expectations for the fiscal third quarter due to lower consumer spending and a … Read more

Eli Lilly’s experimental obesity drug helped patients lose up to 24% of their weight, study says

Eli Lilly’s experimental obesity drug helped patients lose up to 24% of their weight, study says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eli Lilly and Company, pharmaceutical company headquarters in Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain. Cristina Arias | Cover | Getty Images Eli LillyThe experimental drug helped patients lose up to 24% of their weight after almost a year, the largest reduction in a place to treat obesity until today, … Read more

Novo Nordisk says high doses of an experimental obesity pill lead to 15 percent weight loss

Novo Nordisk says high doses of an experimental obesity pill lead to 15 percent weight loss

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Novo Nordisk said it is reducing supplies of some doses of its popular anti-obesity drug in the US as it struggles to keep up with rising demand. Liselotte Sabroe | Afp | Getty Images Novo Nordiskexperimentally with high doses an anti-obesity pill it has now helped … Read more

Pfizer to end development of experimental obesity pill for elevated liver enzymes

Pfizer to end development of experimental obesity pill for elevated liver enzymes

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pavlo Gončar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Pfizer on Monday said he would stop development its experimental anti-obesity and diabetes pill, lotiglipronedue to elevated liver enzymes in once-daily patients in intermediate clinical studies. The one elevated enzymes often indicate damage to cells in the liver, but … Read more

Moderna is seeking FDA approval for an updated covid vaccine for the fall

Moderna is seeking FDA approval for an updated covid vaccine for the fall

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A vial and medical syringe displayed in front of the logos of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and biotech company Moderna. FDA finds vaccine for COVID-19. Pavlo Gončar | LightRocket | Getty Images Modern Thursday used for US Food and Drug Administration approval of … Read more

Pfizer, GSK RSV vaccines for older adults may prevent thousands of hospitalizations, CDC analysis says

Pfizer, GSK RSV vaccines for older adults may prevent thousands of hospitalizations, CDC analysis says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Vial of respiratory syncytial virus. Manjurul | Istock | Getty Images Vaccinating one million adults aged 65 and over for single shot RSV from Pfizer or GSK it can prevent thousands hospitalization in two seasons of the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and … Read more

A CDC advisory committee supports the use of GSK and Pfizer RSV vaccines in adults over 60 years of age

A CDC advisory committee supports the use of GSK and Pfizer RSV vaccines in adults over 60 years of age

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker prepares a flu vaccine before giving it to a local resident in Los Angeles, the United States, on December 17, 2022. Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images An advisory board to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday recommended that adults … Read more

A pharmaceutical trade group is suing the Biden administration over Medicare drug price negotiations

A pharmaceutical trade group is suing the Biden administration over Medicare drug price negotiations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on April 10, 2023 in New York. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The pharmaceutical industry’s largest lobbying group and two other organizations on Wednesday sued The Biden administration is over New Medicare mandates reduce … Read more

GSK says the RSV vaccine for older adults provides protection for two seasons

GSK says the RSV vaccine for older adults provides protection for two seasons

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A viral vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus is under investigation. Hailshadow | Istock | Getty Images GlaxoSmithKline on Wednesday said that his vaccine for protect adults aged 60 and over from respiratory syncytial virusor RSV, remained effective over two disease seasons. A one dose of injection … Read more

The Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults is only slightly less effective after 18 months

The Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults is only slightly less effective after 18 months

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Respiratory syncytial virus – a viral vaccine under investigation Hailshadow | Istock | Getty Images Pfizer‘s the vaccine which protects adults age 60 and older from respiratory syncytial virus it was slightly less effective after 18 months, according to clinical trial results the company announced Wednesday. … Read more

Novo Nordisk is suing clinics that allegedly sell fake Ozempic and Wegovy

Novo Nordisk is suing clinics that allegedly sell fake Ozempic and Wegovy

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo, boxes of the diabetes drug Ozempic sit on a pharmacy counter on April 17, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Novo Nordisk on Tuesday sued five spas and wellness clinics for allegedly selling cheaper, unlicensed versions of drugs from … Read more

These 3 stocks are struggling, but I’m not ready to give up

These 3 stocks are struggling, but I’m not ready to give up

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE If you had told me that club names Estee Lauder ( EL ) or Danaher ( DHR ) would ever miss their spots not once, but twice, I would have told you to get your head checked. These are companies that create and drive, which is … Read more

Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are preparing for the autumn introduction of a vaccine against covid with a significant advantage

Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are preparing for the autumn introduction of a vaccine against covid with a significant advantage

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pharmacist prepares to administer booster shots with the COVID-19 vaccine during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center on September 9, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images The US Food and Drug Administrationit’s covid … Read more

Eli Lilly to buy Dice Therapeutics for $2.4 billion to advance autoimmune treatment

Eli Lilly to buy Dice Therapeutics for .4 billion to advance autoimmune treatment

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE David Ricks, CEO, Eli Lilly Scott Mlyn | CNBC Eli Lilly on Tuesday said he hit a A $2.4 billion deal to acquire Dice Therapeutics in a bid to increase his treatment portfolio for immune-related diseases. Eli Lilly will pay $48 per share in cash to … Read more

Drugmakers want Supreme Court to block Medicare drug price negotiations

Drugmakers want Supreme Court to block Medicare drug price negotiations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pharmaceutical CEOs testify before the Senate Finance Committee on “Drug Prices in America: A Prescription for Change, Part II” on February 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. From left to right are Richard A. Gonzalez, Chairman and CEO of AbbVie Inc; Pascal Soriot, CEO and Managing Director … Read more

The FDA is recommending that updated Covid drugs this fall target the micron XBB.1.5 sub-variant

The FDA is recommending that updated Covid drugs this fall target the micron XBB.1.5 sub-variant

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE XBB.1.5 strain of Covid CANJSKA PHOTOGRAPHY | Future Publishing | Getty Images The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday recommended that vaccine manufacturers produce single-seeded Vaccines against covid for autumn targeting the micron sub-variant XBB.1.5the dominant strain virus across the country. “Based on all the … Read more

Biden should nominate Mandy Cohen to lead the CDC

Biden should nominate Mandy Cohen to lead the CDC

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, speaks at a news conference Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, at the Emergency Center in Raleigh, NC, to encourage parents of young children to get the Covid-19 Vaccine. Bryan Anderson | AP President … Read more

FDA advisers question seasonal updates of covid vaccines as with flu vaccines

FDA advisers question seasonal updates of covid vaccines as with flu vaccines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A person receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine during the distribution of free COVID-19 rapid test kits for those who have received vaccinations or booster shots at Union Station on January 7, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The US Food … Read more

FDA advisers are recommending that new covid vaccines this fall target the micron version of XBB

FDA advisers are recommending that new covid vaccines this fall target the micron version of XBB

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A woman receives a booster dose of the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a vaccination center in Antwerp, Belgium, on February 1, 2022. Johanna Geron | Reuters The US Food and Drug Administrationindependent board of advisers on Thursday recommended this updated Covid footage for autumn … Read more

House Democrats pressure Walmart, Costco, Kroger to sell abortion pill mifepristone

House Democrats pressure Walmart, Costco, Kroger to sell abortion pill mifepristone

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo, packets of mifepristone pills are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Democratic lawmakers called on Thursday walmart, Costco, KrogerSafeway and Health Mart to publicly commit to selling prescription abortion pills mifepristone … Read more

Health insurance stocks fell after UnitedHealth warned that more surgeries would drive up medical costs

Health insurance stocks fell after UnitedHealth warned that more surgeries would drive up medical costs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Shares of health insurers fell on Wednesday after UnitedHealth Group pointed out to higher ups medical expenses as older Americans start catching up they are in surgery with delay during the Covid pandemic. Shares of UnitedHealth, the largest U.S. health care provider by market value, fell … Read more

Covid vaccine maker Novavax sees a path to survival – but it won’t be easy

Covid vaccine maker Novavax sees a path to survival – but it won’t be easy

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Medical syringes and the Novavax logo shown in the background are seen in this illustrated photo taken in Krakow, Poland on December 2, 2021. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images Novavax has a clear message for Wall Street: no money Manufacturer of the covid vaccine … Read more

Illumina’s takeover of Grail is gaining support from GOP lawmakers and state associations, while the FTC is trying to block it

Illumina’s takeover of Grail is gaining support from GOP lawmakers and state associations, while the FTC is trying to block it

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Republican lawmakers, state attorneys general and several advocacy groups have voiced their support Illuminina takeover of cancer test developer Grail, while the Federal Trade Commission struggling to release an agreement. The groups filed 14 amicus briefs between Monday and … Read more

Eli Lilly’s CEO says Medicare price negotiations could hurt drug development

Eli Lilly’s CEO says Medicare price negotiations could hurt drug development

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE David Ricks, CEO, Eli Lilly Scott Mlyn | CNBC Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks said Tuesday Medicare price negotiationswhose goal is reduce costs potentially harmful for older Americans drug development. “I’m really worried about the damage this will do to new drugs and opportunities in medicine,” … Read more

Bernie Sanders vows to oppose NIH nominee until Biden releases plan to lower drug prices

Bernie Sanders vows to oppose NIH nominee until Biden releases plan to lower drug prices

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill about the 11 Senate Democrats who sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to use the 14th Amendment to avoid a catastrophic debt default, in Washington, 18 in May 2023. Evelyn … Read more

A million people have lost Medicaid coverage since the pandemic protections expired

A million people have lost Medicaid coverage since the pandemic protections expired

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker takes a swab sample from a woman at a COVID-19 testing site in New York, the United States, on March 29, 2022. Wang Ying | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images At least 1 million people have been kicked out of Medicaid since … Read more

Updated covid vaccines must target omicron XBB variants this fall, FDA staff say

Updated covid vaccines must target omicron XBB variants this fall, FDA staff say

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Syringe with the XBB variant of the Covid-19 vaccine. The fight against the virus Covid-19 Coronavirus, vaccination and immunization. Undefined Undefined | Istock | Getty Images US Food and Drug Administration staff said in an update Monday Covid boosters must aim Subversions of omicron XBB for … Read more

FDA advisers to consider whether Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi should get full approval

FDA advisers to consider whether Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi should get full approval

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE [The stream is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you don’t see a player above at that time.] A panel of independent advisers to the Food and Drug Administration is meeting Friday to make a recommendation on whether the Alzheimer’s … Read more

Walmart plans to expand its HIV specialty

Walmart plans to expand its HIV specialty

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Customers wait in line at a Walmart pharmacy in Charlotte, North Carolina. Callaghan O’Hare | Bloomberg | Getty Images David Rosario remembers the late 1980s with mixed emotions. In New York, he achieved his goal of becoming a professional dancer, but in that world he also … Read more

FDA advisors recommend AstraZeneca antibodies to protect infants against RSV

FDA advisors recommend AstraZeneca antibodies to protect infants against RSV

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Drawn by Nami | A moment | Getty Images A panel of independent advisers to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended Thursday that the antibody nirsevimab be approved for use to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virusthe leading cause of hospitalization in newborns. If nirsevimab … Read more

Bernie Sanders says cost of Alzheimer’s treatment unconscionable, urges HHS to act

Bernie Sanders says cost of Alzheimer’s treatment unconscionable, urges HHS to act

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) arrives at the US Capitol building on June 1, 2023 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to take action to ensure that seniors can actually … Read more

Lawmakers worry that Medicare’s Alzheimer’s plan won’t provide access to new treatments

Lawmakers worry that Medicare’s Alzheimer’s plan won’t provide access to new treatments

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Rep. Nanette Barragan (D-CA) speaks alongside U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg after touring the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach during a news conference at the Port of Long Beach on January 11, 2022 in Long Beach, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty … Read more

Merck is suing the Biden administration over Medicare drug price negotiations

Merck is suing the Biden administration over Medicare drug price negotiations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images A global drug manufacturer Merck on Tuesday sued the Biden administration for MedicareNew authority to substantially lower drug prices for seniors under the Inflation Reduction Act, the opening salvo in the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to weaken the program. In … Read more

Cancer vaccine Moderna used with Merck’s Keytruda reduces the risk of the deadly skin cancer spreading

Cancer vaccine Moderna used with Merck’s Keytruda reduces the risk of the deadly skin cancer spreading

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Asbe | Istock | Getty Images Modernan experimental cancer vaccine used in combination with Merck‘s Keytruda, reduced the risk of the most deadly form skin cancer spread to other parts of the body in a clinical trial relative to the intermediate stage trial results announced on … Read more

FDA allows temporary importation of unapproved Chinese cancer drug to ease US shortages

FDA allows temporary importation of unapproved Chinese cancer drug to ease US shortages

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A worker works on a production line at the Qilu Pharmaceutical (Hainan) Co Ltd factory on February 11, 2022 in Haikou, Hainan province, China. Su Bikun | VCG | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has allowed the temporary importation of unapproved a chemotherapy drug … Read more

Medicare has a detailed plan for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

Medicare has a detailed plan for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE MRI brain imaging of a patient with Alzheimer’s disease Images of GMO | Getty Images Medicare Part B will cover Alzheimer’s treatments that receive Food and Drug Administration approval, according to the federal agency that administers the program for the elderly. Anyone who has Medicare Part … Read more

The FDA is considering temporarily importing cancer drugs from unapproved companies to reduce shortages in the US

The FDA is considering temporarily importing cancer drugs from unapproved companies to reduce shortages in the US

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE WINDSOR, DNE – MAY 8: Registered pharmacy technician Dawn Deslippe carefully labels Diane’s dose of carboplatin, one of two chemotherapy drugs she will receive this visit. Each step of the process involves verification by at least two people. The hospital now makes its own chemotherapy drugs … Read more

FDA approves Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults

FDA approves Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Luis Alvarez | Digital Vision | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccine it developed on Wednesday Pfizer which protects adults age 60 and older from respiratory syncytial virusa common pathogen that kills and hospitalizes thousands of elderly people each year. Pfizer said … Read more

Illumina shareholders vote to appoint Carl Icahn board nominee, remove chairman

Illumina shareholders vote to appoint Carl Icahn board nominee, remove chairman

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Activist investor Carl Icahn got enough support on Thursday Illumina shareholders to place one of his three nominees on the biotech company’s board of directors. Shareholders also ousted CEO John Thompson. An Illumina spokesman said a new board chairman … Read more

Scientists propose long definition of Covid based on key symptoms in major study

Scientists propose long definition of Covid based on key symptoms in major study

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE South_Agency | E+ | Getty Images The scientists it funds the federal government have proposed a definition long covid based on symptoms found in a large study published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The definition is based on 12 symptoms that most … Read more

FDA grants full approval to Pfizer’s Covid treatment Paxlovid for high-risk adults

FDA grants full approval to Pfizer’s Covid treatment Paxlovid for high-risk adults

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Food and Drug Administration granted full approval on Thursday Pfizer’s Covid antiviral tablets Paxlovidfor adults who are at high risk seriously ill from the virus. Paxlovid is specifically recommended for the treatment of mild to moderate covid in adults over 50 and people suffering from … Read more

The number of new HIV infections in the U.S. is declining, but most people at risk are not receiving preventive medication

The number of new HIV infections in the U.S. is declining, but most people at risk are not receiving preventive medication

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Callista Images | Image Source | Getty Images The number of new HIV infections in the United States fell modestly over a four-year period, but the country is far from reaching its goal of ending the epidemic, according to the latest data released Tuesday by the … Read more

Here’s what Pfizer and Moderna say is next for their covid vaccines

Here’s what Pfizer and Moderna say is next for their covid vaccines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pharmacist prepares to administer booster shots with the COVID-19 vaccine during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center on September 9, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Three years and billions of covid vaccines … Read more

Pfizer’s oral weight-loss drug may be as effective as Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic injection, study says

Pfizer’s oral weight-loss drug may be as effective as Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic injection, study says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Weight loss drugs have become a hot topic as public health authorities and pharmaceutical companies search for solutions to the growing global obesity epidemic. Florian Gaertner | Photo library | Getty Images An oral medication Made in Pfizer causes a similar amount weight loss than a … Read more

Lab-based breast milk startup Biomilq wants to change baby nutrition — if it can release a product

Lab-based breast milk startup Biomilq wants to change baby nutrition — if it can release a product

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A mother holds a newborn baby in a hospital bed. Svetikd | E+ | Getty Images In 2020, a team of scientists in a nondescript office building in Durham, North Carolina, used cells to they recreate the sugar and protein found in breast milk. A seemingly … Read more

FDA advisors recommend Pfizer’s RSV vaccine for infants, but raise safety concerns

FDA advisors recommend Pfizer’s RSV vaccine for infants, but raise safety concerns

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Respiratory syncytial virus – a viral vaccine under investigation Hailshadow | Istock | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration’s independent board of advisers on Thursday recommended full approval Pfizer’s vaccine which protects babies from RSV, however, it has raised safety concerns about premature births that … Read more

CDC urges mpox vaccination among high-risk people to prevent summer surge

CDC urges mpox vaccination among high-risk people to prevent summer surge

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Bottle of booster vaccine against MPXV smallpox and monkeypox. Angelp | Istock | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday urged gay men and other individuals at high risk of mpox to get fully vaccinated to prevent a summer resurgence of the … Read more

Horizon Therapeutics says Amgen deal could close sooner than planned if FTC doesn’t block it

Horizon Therapeutics says Amgen deal could close sooner than planned if FTC doesn’t block it

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Robert Galbraith | Reuters Horizon Therapeutics expects its own Sales for $27.8 billion to Amgen to conclude as early as the end of the third quarter, earlier than planned – if the Federal Trade Commission try blocking business fails — after a document filed Thursday with … Read more

NJ Gov. Murphy would consider challenging the Supreme Court if the justices uphold the abortion pill ban

NJ Gov. Murphy would consider challenging the Supreme Court if the justices uphold the abortion pill ban

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy Scott Mlyn | CNBC New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday that he would consider defiance the Supreme Court and continue to provide mifepristone if the court decides to ban it the abortion pill. Asked whether the state would prescribe mifepristone … Read more

Pfizer will raise a $31 billion debt offering to finance its purchase of Seagen, SEC filings show

Pfizer will raise a  billion debt offering to finance its purchase of Seagen, SEC filings show

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The logo for Pfizer is displayed on a monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, July 29, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Pfizer plans to raise $31 billion through a debt offering to finance your proposed acquisition manufacturer of anti-cancer drugs Seagenfor which … Read more

Mifepristone abortion pill access at stake in federal appeals court hearing

Mifepristone abortion pill access at stake in federal appeals court hearing

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Mifepristone, the first medical abortion drug, is prepared for a patient at the Alamo Women’s Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois on April 20, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters A federal appeals court will hear arguments Wednesday afternoon under close scrutiny lawsuit who wants to pull the abortion … Read more

Pfizer’s RSV infant vaccine has “generally favorable” safety data, FDA staff say

Pfizer’s RSV infant vaccine has “generally favorable” safety data, FDA staff say

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Blood sample for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) test. Jarun011 | Istock | Getty Images US Food and Drug Administration staff said Tuesday Pfizer’s vaccine which protects babies from the respiratory syncytial virus has “generally favorable” security information. FDA staff made the decision in informative documents before … Read more

Horizon Therapeutics shares fell on a report that the FTC is preparing to block the Amgen deal

Horizon Therapeutics shares fell on a report that the FTC is preparing to block the Amgen deal

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Robert Galbraith | Reuters Horizon TherapeuticsThe stock price fell more than 17% in premarket trading on Tuesday following a report that Federal Trade Commission is preparing to file a lawsuit to block the biotech company Sales for $27.8 billion to Amgen. The FTC could sue to … Read more

Google Cloud launches AI-powered tools to accelerate drug discovery and precision medicine

Google Cloud launches AI-powered tools to accelerate drug discovery and precision medicine

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A person walks next to the Google Cloud logo at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, ​​Spain, on February 27, 2023. Nacho Doce | Reuters Google Cloud on Tuesday unveiled two new AI-powered tools that aim to help biotech and pharmaceutical companies accelerate drug discovery … Read more

A universal flu vaccine based on mRNA technology will be tested by the National Institutes of Health

A universal flu vaccine based on mRNA technology will be tested by the National Institutes of Health

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A woman receives a booster dose of the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a vaccination center in Antwerp, Belgium, on February 1, 2022. Johanna Geron | Reuters Patients are now being enrolled in an early phase clinical trial to test a universal flu vaccine based … Read more

Biden will nominate cancer surgeon Monica Bertagnolli to lead the National Institutes of Health

Biden will nominate cancer surgeon Monica Bertagnolli to lead the National Institutes of Health

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE dr. Monica Bertagnolli speaks during a visit by First Lady Jill Biden at the California Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center in San Francisco, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Jeff Chiu | AP President Joe Biden will propose dr. Monica Bertagnollicancer surgeon who leads National Institutes of … Read more

Leqembi’s Alzheimer’s treatment could cost Medicare up to $5 billion a year, study estimates

Leqembi’s Alzheimer’s treatment could cost Medicare up to  billion a year, study estimates

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Alzheimer’s drug LEQEMBI is seen in this undated photo of a handout obtained by Reuters on January 20, 2023. Eisai | Reuters New ones Alzheimer’s diseasetreatment with antibodies Leqembi could cost Medicare up to $5 billion a year research published this week in a leading … Read more

Americans in most countries will no longer receive notifications about Covid exposure on their phones

Americans in most countries will no longer receive notifications about Covid exposure on their phones

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Americans in most countries will no longer receive Exposure to covid notices on their smartphones now that the US public health emergency it ended. As of 2020, nearly 30 countries have used a Bluetooth system developed Apple and Google to track the spread Covid infections and … Read more

Here’s why covid vaccines will still be free for uninsured Americans once the public health emergency ends

Here’s why covid vaccines will still be free for uninsured Americans once the public health emergency ends

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker prepares a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine at the vaccination clinic at the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images Uninsured Americans still have access Vaccines for covid-19 no cost for now, though … Read more

Pfizer CEO says Medicare likely to face legal action over drug price negotiations

Pfizer CEO says Medicare likely to face legal action over drug price negotiations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks with the President of the European Commission during a press conference after a visit to monitor the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at the factory of the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer in Puurs on April 23, 2021. Your John | … Read more

The GOP bill slashed Big Pharma’s tax rates by 40%, a Senate report says

The GOP bill slashed Big Pharma’s tax rates by 40%, a Senate report says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE (L-R) Richard A. Gonzalez, Chairman and CEO of AbbVie Inc., Pascal Soriot, CEO and CEO of AstraZeneca, Giovanni Caforio, Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Jennifer Taubert, Executive Vice President and worldwide chairman of Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Kenneth C. Frazier, chairman and CEO … Read more

The WHO says the outbreak of mppox, the largest in history, is no longer a global health threat

The WHO says the outbreak of mppox, the largest in history, is no longer a global health threat

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pharmacist Uchita Parikh prepares a dose of Jynneos monkeypox vaccine at a pop-up vaccination clinic opened today by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health at the West Hollywood Library on August 3, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The World … Read more

The public health emergency due to covid in the US is ending, leaving behind a devastated healthcare system

The public health emergency due to covid in the US is ending, leaving behind a devastated healthcare system

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A sign outside a hospital advertises testing for COVID-19 on November 19, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images USA public health emergency stated in response to COVID-19 ends Thursday more than three years after the pandemic began. The The Biden administrationThe decision … Read more

Eli Lilly CEO vows no more insulin price hikes, while Novo Nordisk and Sanofi hedge

Eli Lilly CEO vows no more insulin price hikes, while Novo Nordisk and Sanofi hedge

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks vowed on Wednesday not to raise the company’s prices insulin products again — the only CEO to do so before a Hearing of the Senate Committee on Health about making a life-saving diabetes drug more affordable. sen. Bernie Sandersboard chairman, asked … Read more

FDA advisors recommend selling birth control pills without a prescription

FDA advisors recommend selling birth control pills without a prescription

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Opill oral contraceptive Source: Perrigo Panel from experts who advises Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended Wednesday that the agency allow women to get birth control pills without a prescription for the first time. The Commission was asked whether the advantages of the sale HRA Pharma‘s … Read more

Breast cancer screening should start at age 40 instead of 50, US panel says

Breast cancer screening should start at age 40 instead of 50, US panel says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Medical personnel use a mammogram to check a woman’s breasts for breast cancer. Hannibal Hanschke | dpa | Picture of Alliance | Getty Images Most women should get screened Breast cancer every other year starting at age 40, a decade earlier than previously recommended, according to … Read more

Jury finds Gilead Sciences did not infringe government patents on HIV prevention treatment

Jury finds Gilead Sciences did not infringe government patents on HIV prevention treatment

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The logo of pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences is seen in Oceanside, California, on April 29, 2020. Mike Blake | Reuters A Delaware jury acquitted him Tuesday Gilead Sciences allegations by the US government that it infringed on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s patents on … Read more

The FDA may allow over-the-counter birth control pills this summer as experts weigh the data

The FDA may allow over-the-counter birth control pills this summer as experts weigh the data

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Opill oral contraceptive Source: Perrigo The Food and Drug Administration could approve the sale contraception drugs without a recipe for the first time this summer. A panel of independent experts advising the FDA will meet Tuesday and Wednesday to make a recommendation on whether the data … Read more

Novavax shares rise after company reveals positive vaccine data, plans to lay off 25% of workforce

Novavax shares rise after company reveals positive vaccine data, plans to lay off 25% of workforce

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A health worker prepares a dose of the Novavax vaccine as the Netherlands Health Organization begins the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. Patrick Van Katwijk | Getty Images Company shares Novavax rose 5% in premarket trading on Tuesday company revealed … Read more

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky will resign in June

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky will resign in June

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Centers for Disease Control Director Rochelle Walensky leaves after testifying before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on the All Hazards Preparedness Act in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday, May 4, 2023 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura | Los Angeles Times | … Read more

After the public health emergency ends, the CDC will have less data to track Covid and new variants

After the public health emergency ends, the CDC will have less data to track Covid and new variants

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People walk past a Covid-19 testing site in Times Square on May 12, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will have less data to track the spread COVID-19 and new versions in … Read more

Kenvue’s CEO is working on branding and product innovation to drive post-IPO growth

Kenvue’s CEO is working on branding and product innovation to drive post-IPO growth

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Thibaut Mongon, CEO of Kenvue Inc., a Johnson & Johnson consumer health company, speaks during an interview with CNBC during his company’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), May 4, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters CEO of Kenvue Thibaut Mongon bets on brand and … Read more

WHO declares end of global public health emergency due to Covid

WHO declares end of global public health emergency due to Covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on December 20, 2021. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The World Health Organization declared on Friday that the spread of Covid-19 is no longer a global public health emergency. … Read more

J&J’s consumer health spinoff Kenvue opens at $25.53, up 16%, in public debut

J&J’s consumer health spinoff Kenvue opens at .53, up 16%, in public debut

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Thibaut Mongon, CEO and Paul Ruh CFO of Kenvue Inc., a Johnson & Johnson consumer health company, pose together during the company’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., May 4, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Johnson & JohnsonKenvue’s consumer health … Read more

Moderna posts surprise quarterly profit despite dwindling demand for Covid vaccines

Moderna posts surprise quarterly profit despite dwindling demand for Covid vaccines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Moderne sign is seen outside their headquarters in Cambridge, MA on March 11, 2021. The Boston Globe | Getty Images Modern beat past estimates for first-quarter earnings and revenue on Thursday and posted a surprise quarterly profit, despite lower demand for its only marketed product … Read more

FDA Commissioner Praises Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s Treatment Results

FDA Commissioner Praises Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s Treatment Results

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf speaks at an event celebrating hearing aids being available over the counter at Walgreens in Washington, DC on October 19, 2022. Nathan Posner | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Commissioner for Food and Medicines dr. Robert Califf praised the results Eli … Read more

FDA approves GSK’s RSV vaccine for older adults, world’s first drug against the virus

FDA approves GSK’s RSV vaccine for older adults, world’s first drug against the virus

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved an RSV the vaccine is produced GlaxoSmithKline for use in adults 60 years of age and older. The approval, the first global regulatory approval for RSV the vaccineis a decisive victory for GSK va race against drug manufacturers … Read more

J&J’s consumer health company, Kenvue, will go public this week. Here’s what you need to know

J&J’s consumer health company, Kenvue, will go public this week.  Here’s what you need to know

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Johnson & Johnson products on a shelf in a store in New York. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Johnson & Johnsonconsumer health company, Kenvueexpected this week in the largest US IPO in more than a year. this business it’s full of household names familiar to investors and … Read more

CVS beats earnings and revenue but lowers profit outlook

CVS beats earnings and revenue but lowers profit outlook

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE CVS location in New York, USA on Thursday, February 9, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images CVS Health on Thursday reported first-quarter results that beat expectations for profit and revenue, but the company lowered its full-year profit guidance due to costs related to recent … Read more

Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s treatment donanemab slowed disease progression in clinical trial

Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s treatment donanemab slowed disease progression in clinical trial

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eli Lilly and Company’s pharmaceutical manufacturing facility is pictured at 50 ImClone Drive in Branchburg, New Jersey on March 5, 2021. Mike Segar | Reuters Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease donanemabwhich manufactures it Eli Lillysignificantly slowed the progress of the mind robbery diseaseaccording to clinical trial data … Read more

Gilead Sciences is battling the US government in court over a patent to prevent HIV

Gilead Sciences is battling the US government in court over a patent to prevent HIV

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Gilead Sciences logo displayed on a laptop screen and medical pills are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on October 18, 2021. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Gilead Sciences and the US government faced … Read more

Pfizer’s profit and revenue beat expectations despite a drop in sales of its Covid-19 vaccine

Pfizer’s profit and revenue beat expectations despite a drop in sales of its Covid-19 vaccine

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pharmaceutical Pfizer Inc. said an oral drug to treat COVID-19 could be available by the end of 2021. Soumyabrata Roy | NurPhoto | Getty Images Pfizer on Tuesday reported first-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that beat Wall Street expectations, despite a drop in sales caused by … Read more

On May 11, Biden will end the covid vaccine mandates for federal workers and international travelers

On May 11, Biden will end the covid vaccine mandates for federal workers and international travelers

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Passengers wearing protective masks receive nasal swabs from nurses at a COVID-19 testing site inside Terminal B at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Biden administration will end its covid-19 vaccine mandates for federal … Read more

Bipartisan attorneys general urge Medicare to cover Alzheimer’s treatment

Bipartisan attorneys general urge Medicare to cover Alzheimer’s treatment

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Alzheimer’s drug LEQEMBI is seen in this undated photo of a handout obtained by Reuters on January 20, 2023. Eisai | via Reuters Democratic and Republican attorneys general in nearly half of US states are urging Medicare to provide unlimited coverage for Alzheimer’s antibody treatment, … Read more

Carl Icahn calls Illumina’s Q1 results “very disappointing,” sharply lowers plan

Carl Icahn calls Illumina’s Q1 results “very disappointing,” sharply lowers plan

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Carl Icahn speaks at Delivering Alpha in New York on September 13, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Carl Icahn called on Friday Illuminina the first quarter the results “very disappointing” and criticized the DNA sequencing company new plans reduce costs. The activist investor, who owns … Read more

The abortion pill mifepristone is banned or restricted in some states despite the Supreme Court decision

The abortion pill mifepristone is banned or restricted in some states despite the Supreme Court decision

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo, packets of mifepristone pills are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The abortion pill mifepristone is banned or restricted to varying degrees in 27 countries despite a Supreme Court a decision … Read more

Eli Lilly says the obesity drug tirzepatide has resulted in weight loss of up to 34 pounds

Eli Lilly says the obesity drug tirzepatide has resulted in weight loss of up to 34 pounds

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pharmacist displays a box of Mounjaro, an injectable tirzepatide drug used to treat type 2 diabetes and manufactured by Lilly, at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, on May 29, 2023. George Frey | Reuters Patients who took Eli Lillyweight loss medicine tirzepatide lost up … Read more

Eli Lilly misses earnings but raises full-year guidance

Eli Lilly misses earnings but raises full-year guidance

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Medical bottles and syringes are seen with the Eli Lilly and company logo displayed on a screen in the background in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 10, 2022. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Eli LillyFirst-quarter profit on Thursday missed expectations, … Read more

Merck’s revenue is falling after a dramatic drop in sales of its antiviral drugs for covid

Merck’s revenue is falling after a dramatic drop in sales of its antiviral drugs for covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this illustration photo taken in Poland on Oct. 4, 2021, a medical pill is shown with the Merck logo displayed on a screen in the background. NurPhoto | NurPhoto | Getty Images Merck on Thursday reported first-quarter revenue that fell 9% from the same period … Read more

Alzheimer’s disease: Medicare will cover Leqembi for all patients if FDA approves drug, CMS chief says

Alzheimer’s disease: Medicare will cover Leqembi for all patients if FDA approves drug, CMS chief says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Chiquita Brooks-LaSure testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, April 15, 2021, during a hearing on her nomination to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in Washington. Caroline Brehman | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Medicare will cover the … Read more

Illumina unveils cost-cutting plans as it faces shrinking margins

Illumina unveils cost-cutting plans as it faces shrinking margins

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A building on the campus of Illumina’s global headquarters is shown in San Diego, California, on September 1, 2021. Mike Blake | Reuters Illumina on Tuesday disclosed plans to cut costs to improve the dwindling margins of the DNA sequencing company. The plans aim to reduce … Read more

Biogen isn’t worried about competing with Eli Lilly on Alzheimer’s drugs, CEO says

Biogen isn’t worried about competing with Eli Lilly on Alzheimer’s drugs, CEO says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A person skateboards past the headquarters of Biogen Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Monday, June 7, 2021. Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Biogen not worried about competing with Eli Lilly because both are trying to bring on alzheimer’s disease medicine to the market, Biogen’s … Read more

FDA grants accelerated approval to Biogen ALS drug to treat rare form of disease

FDA grants accelerated approval to Biogen ALS drug to treat rare form of disease

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pedestrian walks past the headquarters of Biogen Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Monday, June 7, 2021. Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued expedited approval for the Biogendrug tofersenwhich treats a rare and aggressive form of the … Read more

Vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic says the Mpox outbreak was a call to prepare for smallpox

Vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic says the Mpox outbreak was a call to prepare for smallpox

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the JYNNEOS Monkeypox vaccine at a pop-up vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, California on August 9, 2022. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Manufacturer mpox the vaccine is looking for ways to dramatically increase its production capacity … Read more

Johnson & Johnson’s consumer health unit is valued at $40 billion before the IPO, the report said

Johnson & Johnson’s consumer health unit is valued at  billion before the IPO, the report said

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Johnson & Johnson logo SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Johnson & JohnsonThe consumer health business is valued at $40 billion before his First public offering later this year, according to the report The Wall Street Journal. Future spinoff Kenvue plans to raise $3.5 billion … Read more

Supreme Court says abortion pill mifepristone will remain widely available during court battle

Supreme Court says abortion pill mifepristone will remain widely available during court battle

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Demonstrators protest in support of abortion rights outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 15, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Friday ordered that the abortion pill mifepristone remain widely available while the legal case plays out … Read more

The CEOs of Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi will testify before the Senate about lowering insulin prices

The CEOs of Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi will testify before the Senate about lowering insulin prices

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE This photo shows an insulin pen from Novo Nordisk on March 14, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | News Getty Images | Getty Images Management of three pharmaceutical companies that control 90% of the world insulin trg will testify before the Senate Health Committee on … Read more

The introduction of a malaria vaccine in Oxford could have “huge” implications in sub-Saharan Africa, an economist says

The introduction of a malaria vaccine in Oxford could have “huge” implications in sub-Saharan Africa, an economist says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A close-up of a yellow fever mosquito biting human skin is the vector of malaria, yellow fever, chikungunya, dengue and zika virus in Brazil, locally known as mosquito da dengue. Joao Paulo Burini | A moment | Getty Images This week, Nigeria joined Ghana in provisionally … Read more

The Senate legislation would cap insulin at $35 a month for people with private insurance

The Senate legislation would cap insulin at  a month for people with private insurance

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo, insulin pens manufactured by Novo Nordisk are shown on March 14, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Bipartisan Senate legislation introduced Friday would cap the price of insulin at $35 a month for people with private insurance. The billprepared by … Read more

US bankruptcy judge halts 40,000 talc cancer lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson

US bankruptcy judge halts 40,000 talc cancer lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo illustration, a container of Johnson and Johnson baby powder is shown on April 5, 2023 in San Anselmo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday halted about 40,000 lawsuits that Johnson & Johnsonbaby powder and other talc products … Read more

Justice Department indicts 18 people — including doctors — in massive Covid health care fraud bust

Justice Department indicts 18 people — including doctors — in massive Covid health care fraud bust

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eighteen people, including doctors, were criminally charged for Healthcare Fraud Covid-19 schemes that netted hundreds of millions of dollars through fraudulent billing and theft from federally funded programs, Department of Justice said Thursday. The indictments, which span nine federal judicial districts, comprise the largest coordinated U.S. … Read more

Moderna teams up with IBM to apply artificial intelligence and quantum computing to mRNA technology used in vaccines

Moderna teams up with IBM to apply artificial intelligence and quantum computing to mRNA technology used in vaccines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Modern and IBM are teaming up to use generative artificial intelligence and quantum computing to advance mRNA technology, the development at the heart of the company’s Covid vaccine, the companies announced Thursday. “We are excited to work with IBM … Read more

Supreme Court postpones ruling on mifepristone abortion restrictions until at least Friday

Supreme Court postpones ruling on mifepristone abortion restrictions until at least Friday

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Demonstrators protest in support of abortion rights outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 15, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued an order Wednesday allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to remain on the market without … Read more

Abortion pill company GenBioPro is asking a US court to keep generic mifepristone on the market

Abortion pill company GenBioPro is asking a US court to keep generic mifepristone on the market

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A box containing a mifepristone pill is seen at Blue Mountain Clinic in Missoula, Montana, U.S. February 28, 2023. REUTERS/Callaghan O’Hare Callaghan O’hare | Reuters A pharmaceutical company that distributes most of the American supply of the drug abortion pill mifepristone sued the Food and Drug … Read more

Abbott Labs shares jump as revenue, earnings defy steep drop in Covid test sales

Abbott Labs shares jump as revenue, earnings defy steep drop in Covid test sales

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Abbott manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan on May 13, 2022. Jeff Kowalsky | AFP | Getty Images Company shares Abbott Laboratories fell on Wednesday after the company’s earnings and revenue beat Wall Street expectations, despite a dramatic slowdown in sales of its Covid-19 tests. The medical … Read more

Johnson & Johnson expects no new revenue from covid vaccines after vaccines boosted earnings

Johnson & Johnson expects no new revenue from covid vaccines after vaccines boosted earnings

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Janssen Johnson & Johnson vaccine against COVID-19. Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images International sales of the covid vaccine helped spark the spark Johnson & JohnsonRevenue and earnings were higher on Tuesday, but the company said it does not expect any sales … Read more

Anti-abortion group asks Supreme Court to uphold mifepristone restrictions

Anti-abortion group asks Supreme Court to uphold mifepristone restrictions

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Anti-abortion protesters celebrate outside the United States Supreme Court as the court ruled in the abortion case Dobbs v. Women’s Health and overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters An anti-abortion group urged the Supreme … Read more

FDA allows additional micron covid vaccinations for the elderly and people with weak immune systems

FDA allows additional micron covid vaccinations for the elderly and people with weak immune systems

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Sylvester Fisher receives a flu shot from pharmacist Patricia Pernal during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center on September 9, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. The vaccines were offered at the event along with pneumonia vaccines and the … Read more

Johnson & Johnson beats on profit and revenue, raises full-year guidance

Johnson & Johnson beats on profit and revenue, raises full-year guidance

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Artur Widak | NurPhoto | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday reported adjusted earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street expectations and raised its full-year forecast. J&J, whose financial results are considered leaders for many healthcare companies, said it