Weight loss drug Wegovy is now approved for heart health — but that won’t mean broad insurance coverage just yet

Weight loss drug Wegovy is now approved for heart health — but that won’t mean broad insurance coverage just yet

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Victoria Klesty | Reuters In the U.S., Wegovy is no longer just for weight loss. The blockbuster drug — one of a handful of weight loss treatments to skyrocket in popularity over the last year — is now approved in the U.S. for heart health, too. But … Read more

Weight loss drug Wegovy is now approved for heart health — but that won’t mean broad insurance coverage just yet

Weight loss drug Wegovy is now approved for heart health — but that won’t mean broad insurance coverage just yet

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Victoria Klesty | Reuters In the U.S., Wegovy is no longer just for weight loss. The blockbuster drug — one of a handful of weight loss treatments to skyrocket in popularity over the last year — is now approved in the U.S. for heart health, too. But … Read more

FDA approves Madrigal Pharmaceuticals drug as first treatment for common NASH liver disease

FDA approves Madrigal Pharmaceuticals drug as first treatment for common NASH liver disease

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo illustration, the Madrigal Pharmaceuticals logo is displayed on a smartphone screen.  Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first-ever treatment for a common and potentially deadly form of liver disease that … Read more

Eli Lilly taps Amazon Pharmacy to help deliver weight loss drug Zepbound, other medicines to patients 

Eli Lilly taps Amazon Pharmacy to help deliver weight loss drug Zepbound, other medicines to patients 

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Close-up of a hand holding a cellphone displaying the Amazon Pharmacy system, Lafayette, California, September 15, 2021.  Smith Collection | Gado | Getty Images Eli Lilly on Wednesday said Amazon Pharmacy will help send certain prescription drugs, including the red-hot weight loss treatment Zepbound, to patients’ … Read more

Pfizer is betting big on cancer drugs to turn business around after Covid decline – here’s what to know

Pfizer is betting big on cancer drugs to turn business around after Covid decline – here’s what to know

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Pfizer is ready to move on from Covid.  Now, the company is betting on cancer drugs to help it regain its footing after a rocky year marked by the rapid decline of its Covid business. It just might take a … Read more

Novo Nordisk CEO says experimental weight loss pill could become a best in class drug

Novo Nordisk CEO says experimental weight loss pill could become a best in class drug

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen on Friday said the company’s experimental weight loss pill, amycretin, could eventually become a best-in-class treatment for obesity.  The Danish drugmaker is racing to capitalize on the runaway success of its blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy by developing a new … Read more

Eli Lilly says FDA delays approval of Alzheimer’s drug in surprise move

Eli Lilly says FDA delays approval of Alzheimer’s drug in surprise move

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eli Lilly headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Eli Lilly & Co.’s shares climbed in early US trading after its experimental drug for Alzheimer’s slowed the progress of the disease in a final-stage trial, paving the way for the company to apply … Read more

Cigna launches effort to cap employer insurance plan spending on weight loss drugs

Cigna launches effort to cap employer insurance plan spending on weight loss drugs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Injection pens of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy are shown in this photo illustration in Oslo, Norway, Nov. 21, 2023. Victoria Klesty | Reuters Cigna on Thursday unveiled a new effort to expand insurance coverage for weight loss drugs by limiting how much health plans and … Read more

Cigna launches effort to cap employer insurance plan spending on weight loss drugs

Cigna launches effort to cap employer insurance plan spending on weight loss drugs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Injection pens of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy are shown in this photo illustration in Oslo, Norway, Nov. 21, 2023. Victoria Klesty | Reuters Cigna on Thursday unveiled a new effort to expand insurance coverage for weight loss drugs by limiting how much health plans and … Read more

Biden says Medicare should negotiate prices for at least 50 drugs each year, up from a target of 20

Biden says Medicare should negotiate prices for at least 50 drugs each year, up from a target of 20

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE US President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, US, on Thursday, Dec. 14 2023.  Chris Kleponis | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Wednesday said the federal Medicare program should negotiate prices for at … Read more

Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug Ozempic slashed the risk of kidney disease progression in trial

Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug Ozempic slashed the risk of kidney disease progression in trial

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE This picture taken on October 23, 2023, shows Ozempic medication boxes, an injectable antidiabetic drug, in a pharmacy in Riedisheim, eastern France.  Sebastien Bozon | Afp | Getty Images Novo Nordisk‘s blockbuster drug Ozempic cut the risk of kidney disease progression and related health complications in … Read more

Viking Therapeutics emerges as a strong weight loss drug player — or takeover target

Viking Therapeutics emerges as a strong weight loss drug player — or takeover target

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Cr | Istock | Getty Images Biotech company Viking Therapeutics has emerged as a strong potential entrant — or takeover target — in the budding weight loss drug market.  Viking is just one of several companies racing to join the growing space. Some analysts say the … Read more

Viking Therapeutics emerges as a strong weight loss drug player — or takeover target

Viking Therapeutics emerges as a strong weight loss drug player — or takeover target

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Cr | Istock | Getty Images Biotech company Viking Therapeutics has emerged as a strong potential entrant — or takeover target — in the budding weight loss drug market.  Viking is just one of several companies racing to join the growing space. Some analysts say the … Read more

Judge rejects AstraZeneca’s challenge to Medicare drug price negotiations

Judge rejects AstraZeneca’s challenge to Medicare drug price negotiations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Activists protest the price of prescription drug costs in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) building on October 06, 2022 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images A federal judge on Friday rejected AstraZeneca‘s legal challenge to Medicare’s new power … Read more

CVS and Walgreens to start selling abortion pill mifepristone this month 

CVS and Walgreens to start selling abortion pill mifepristone this month 

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A container holding boxes of Mifepristone, the first medication in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at Alamo Women’s Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, April 20, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters CVS and Walgreens will start selling the abortion pill mifepristone this month at certain pharmacy … Read more

Pfizer RSV vaccine maintains protection in older adults over two seasons in trial

Pfizer RSV vaccine maintains protection in older adults over two seasons in trial

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Respiratory syncytial virus vial. Manjurul | Istock | Getty Images Pfizer‘s vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus maintained protection for older adults across two full seasons of the disease in an ongoing late-stage clinical trial, the company announced Thursday. The shot’s efficacy declined compared with the levels … Read more

Novavax misses quarterly estimates, but vaccine maker narrows losses as it slashes costs

Novavax misses quarterly estimates, but vaccine maker narrows losses as it slashes costs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty Images Vaccine maker Novavax on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter revenue and earnings that missed Wall Street’s estimates and reiterated plans to cut costs as it fights to stay afloat.  Still, Novavax narrowed its losses in the quarter from the same period … Read more

Viking Therapeutics stock jumps 80% after positive weight loss drug trial results

Viking Therapeutics stock jumps 80% after positive weight loss drug trial results

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Cr | Istock | Getty Images Shares of Viking Therapeutics soared more than 80% in premarket trading Tuesday after the company’s experimental weight loss drug showed promising initial results in a mid-stage trial.  Viking Therapeutics is one of several small obesity drugmakers hoping to enter the … Read more

Novavax to settle dispute over canceled Covid vaccine purchase agreement

Novavax to settle dispute over canceled Covid vaccine purchase agreement

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A health worker prepares a dose of the Novavax vaccine as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. Patrick Van Katwijk | Getty Images Novavax on Thursday said it will settle a bitter arbitration … Read more

Moderna posts surprise quarterly profit even as Covid vaccines sales plummet

Moderna posts surprise quarterly profit even as Covid vaccines sales plummet

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Nikos Pekiaridis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Moderna on Thursday posted a surprise quarterly profit, in part boosted by deferred revenue, even as the company saw slumping sales from its Covid vaccine, its only marketable product.  The results cap a rocky year for the biotech company and … Read more

AbbVie taps longtime executive Robert Michael as new CEO, succeeding Richard Gonzalez

AbbVie taps longtime executive Robert Michael as new CEO, succeeding Richard Gonzalez

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Test tubes are seen in front of a displayed AbbVie logo in this illustration taken on May 21, 2021. Dado Ruvic | Reuters AbbVie on Tuesday said longtime executive Robert Michael will become the company’s new CEO, replacing Richard Gonzalez.  Michael, who is AbbVie’s president and … Read more

Biden administration examining role of supply chain middlemen in generic drug shortages

Biden administration examining role of supply chain middlemen in generic drug shortages

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A variety of generic pills and capsules.  Nenov | Moment | Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday said it is examining the role that drug wholesalers and companies that purchase medicines for U.S. health-care providers play in shortages of generic drugs, which account for … Read more

Federal judge tosses lobbying group’s lawsuit challenging Medicare drug price negotiations

Federal judge tosses lobbying group’s lawsuit challenging Medicare drug price negotiations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Activists protest the price of prescription drug costs in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) building on October 06, 2022 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images A federal judge on Monday tossed a lawsuit brought by a major pharmaceutical … Read more

Biogen revenue and profit shrink on Aduhelm costs, slumping sales of multiple sclerosis therapies

Biogen revenue and profit shrink on Aduhelm costs, slumping sales of multiple sclerosis therapies

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A Biogen facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Brian Snyder | Reuters Biogen on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter revenue and profit that shrank from a year ago, as it recorded charges related to dropping its controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm and as sales slumped in its multiple sclerosis therapies, the company’s … Read more

Weight loss drugs are still hard to find — but Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are trying to change that

Cigna launches effort to cap employer insurance plan spending on weight loss drugs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Injection pens of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy are shown in this photo illustration in Oslo, Norway, Nov. 21, 2023. Victoria Klesty | Reuters The insatiable demand for weight loss drugs is trouncing supply, leaving many patients struggling to find the injectable treatments.  The dominant weight … Read more

Senators to question Merck, J&J and Bristol Myers Squibb CEOs over high U.S. drug pricing

Senators to question Merck, J&J and Bristol Myers Squibb CEOs over high U.S. drug pricing

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Sen. Bernie Sanders, left, appears at a news conference with Sen. Ed Markey on issuing subpoenas for pharmaceutical company CEOs to testify regarding drug prices, in the Capitol, Jan. 25, 2024. Bill Clark | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Senators will question the CEOs of … Read more

CVS beats estimates, but cuts full-year profit outlook on higher medical costs

CVS beats estimates, but cuts full-year profit outlook on higher medical costs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A CVS location in New York, US, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images CVS Health on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that topped expectations, but the company cut its full-year profit outlook, citing higher medical costs that are … Read more

Eli Lilly says weight loss drug shows promise as treatment for fatty liver disease

Eli Lilly says weight loss drug shows promise as treatment for fatty liver disease

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City, U.S., December 11, 2023.  Brendan McDermid | Reuters Eli Lilly on Tuesday said its highly popular drug used for weight loss and diabetes showed promise as a treatment for fatty … Read more

Eli Lilly results blow past estimates on strong Zepbound launch, higher Mounjaro prices

Eli Lilly results blow past estimates on strong Zepbound launch, higher Mounjaro prices

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eli Lilly logo is shown on one of the company’s offices in San Diego, California, U.S., September 17, 2020.  Mike Blake | Reuters Eli Lilly on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that topped expectations on the strong launch of its new weight loss drug, Zepbound, … Read more

Novo Nordisk parent to buy Catalent for $16.5 billion to expand Wegovy supply

Novo Nordisk parent to buy Catalent for .5 billion to expand Wegovy supply

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Injection pens of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy are shown in this photo illustration in Oslo, Norway, November 21, 2023.  Victoria Klesty | Reuters Novo Nordisk‘s parent company on Monday said it will acquire drug manufacturer Catalent in a $16.5 billion deal that could help boost … Read more

Bristol Myers Squibb results top estimates as new drugs post strong sales growth 

Bristol Myers Squibb results top estimates as new drugs post strong sales growth 

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Bristol Myers Squibb reported quarterly earnings and revenue that topped expectations on Friday as its portfolio of new drugs posted strong sales growth.  Here’s what the company reported for the fourth quarter compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by … Read more

Merck results beat expectations as top drugs Keytruda, Gardasil post strong sales

Merck results beat expectations as top drugs Keytruda, Gardasil post strong sales

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The logo for Merck & Co. is displayed on a screen at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, New York, U.S., November 17, 2021.  Andrew Kelly | Reuters Merck on Thursday reported fourth-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that topped estimates as it … Read more

Biogen drops controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm to focus on Leqembi, experimental treatments

Biogen drops controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm to focus on Leqembi, experimental treatments

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Biogen headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images Biogen on Wednesday said it will discontinue the sale and development of its older and highly controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm to refocus the company’s efforts to treat the … Read more

GSK posts blowout RSV vaccine sales, raises outlook as shots give big pharma a boost

GSK posts blowout RSV vaccine sales, raises outlook as shots give big pharma a boost

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Company logo of pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline is seen at their Stevenage facility, Britain October 26, 2020.  Dado Ruvic | Reuters GlaxoSmithKline on Wednesday lifted its long-term outlook following the smash-hit launch of its new RSV vaccine. The shot targeting the severe and in some cases life-threatening … Read more

Vertex non-opioid painkiller shows positive results in critical late-stage trial on acute pain

Vertex non-opioid painkiller shows positive results in critical late-stage trial on acute pain

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A sign hangs in front of the world headquarters of Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston on Oct. 23, 2019. Brian Snyder | Reuters Vertex Pharmaceuticals on Tuesday said its experimental painkiller, which is being tested as an alternative to addictive opioids, significantly decreased post-surgery pain in late-stage … Read more

Pfizer beats earnings estimates as declining Covid business performs better than expected

Pfizer beats earnings estimates as declining Covid business performs better than expected

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks during a press conference with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at the factory of U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer in Puurs, Belgium April 23, 2021.  John Thys | … Read more

Big pharma is at a crossroads, as J&J, Merck and others prepare to lose heaps of revenue from blockbuster drugs

Big pharma is at a crossroads, as J&J, Merck and others prepare to lose heaps of revenue from blockbuster drugs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The New York Stock Exchange welcomes Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) to the podium.  NYSE Big pharmaceutical companies such as Bristol Myers Squibb, Merck and Johnson & Johnson face a looming threat that will put tens of billions of dollars in sales at risk between now … Read more

Merck, Johnson & Johnson CEOs agree to testify in Senate hearing on high drug prices

Merck, Johnson & Johnson CEOs agree to testify in Senate hearing on high drug prices

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE US Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, speaks during a rally by the People’s Action, protesting pharmaceutical companies’ lobbying against allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices, outside Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) headquarters in Washington, DC, September 21, 2021. Saul Loeb | … Read more

Humana stock plunges on dismal 2024 forecast, as insurers face soaring medical costs

Humana stock plunges on dismal 2024 forecast, as insurers face soaring medical costs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Signage is displayed on a Humana Inc. office building in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. Humana is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 6. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Humana plummeted on Thursday … Read more

Johnson & Johnson to settle talc baby powder investigation, will reportedly pay $700 million

Johnson & Johnson to settle talc baby powder investigation, will reportedly pay 0 million

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Containers of Johnson and Johnson baby powder are displayed on a Walgreens shelf on April 05, 2023 in San Anselmo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson has reached a tentative settlement to resolve an investigation by more than 40 states into whether the … Read more

Johnson & Johnson narrowly tops quarterly estimates as pharmaceutical, medtech sales jump

Johnson & Johnson narrowly tops quarterly estimates as pharmaceutical, medtech sales jump

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The stock trading graph of Johnson & Johnson is seen on a smartphone screen. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings and revenue that narrowly edged out Wall Street’s expectations as sales in the company’s pharmaceutical … Read more

Gilead stock falls after disappointing lung cancer study results

Gilead stock falls after disappointing lung cancer study results

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of Gilead fell more than 9% on Monday after a key drug from the company did not significantly extend the lives of patients with a certain lung cancer in a late-stage trial. The results are a blow to … Read more

The weight loss drug market may soon get more crowded – here are the companies trying to enter the booming space

The weight loss drug market may soon get more crowded – here are the companies trying to enter the booming space

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Still life of Wegovy an injectable prescription weight loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. It should be used with a weight loss plan and physical activity.  Michael Siluk | UCG | Getty Images Drugmakers have been scrambling to join a two-horse race to lead … Read more

4 stock ideas I brought back from the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference and everything else I learned about the industry

4 stock ideas I brought back from the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference and everything else I learned about the industry

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Health care may be a real challenger to tech this year, a business that can actually grow faster than most of tech and has the possibility of a comeback from the Covid straitjacket that so many of these companies got caught up in. The pandemic obscured … Read more

Biotech and pharma companies are betting on a promising class of cancer drugs to drive growth

Biotech and pharma companies are betting on a promising class of cancer drugs to drive growth

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Medical personnel use a mammogram to examine a woman’s breast for breast cancer. Hannibal Hanschke | dpa | Picture Alliance | Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO — An established but promising group of cancer drugs was a red-hot market in 2023, and more companies could look to … Read more

Walgreens and 3 other health-care stocks are going into our Bullpen watch list

Walgreens and 3 other health-care stocks are going into our Bullpen watch list

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE We’re making our first Bullpen update of 2024. The Bullpen is a collection of stocks identified by the CNBC Investing Club team as having the potential to join Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust. We’re highlighting the four most interesting investment opportunities we found out of the handful … Read more

CVS to close ‘select’ pharmacies in Target stores in the coming months

CVS to close ‘select’ pharmacies in Target stores in the coming months

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A person walks by a CVS pharmacy store in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 15, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters CVS Health plans to close select pharmacies inside Target stores early this year, a company spokesperson said Thursday, as retail pharmacy chains in the U.S. struggle … Read more

J&J to acquire cancer drug developer Ambrx Biopharma for $2 billion

J&J to acquire cancer drug developer Ambrx Biopharma for  billion

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE An entry sign to the Johnson & Johnson campus shows their logo in Irvine, California on August 28, 2019. Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson on Monday said it will pay $2 billion in cash to acquire Ambrx Biopharma, a drugmaker specializing … Read more

Eli Lilly’s direct drug sales may not upend the industry alone – but others could follow suit

Eli Lilly’s direct drug sales may not upend the industry alone – but others could follow suit

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Eli Lilly is shaking up the pharmaceutical industry with a new website offering telehealth prescriptions and direct home delivery of certain drugs, including its red-hot weight loss treatment Zepbound, to expand patient access.  The company’s direct-to-consumer push announced Thursday, … Read more

Florida wins first FDA approval to import cheaper drugs from Canada

Florida wins first FDA approval to import cheaper drugs from Canada

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pharmacist Thomas Jensen, looks over a prescription drug at the Rock Canyon pharmacy in Provo, Utah, May 9, 2019. George Frey | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Florida’s plan to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, a first-in-the-nation move that could reduce … Read more

Walgreens posts earnings beat but slashes quarterly dividend nearly in half

Walgreens posts earnings beat but slashes quarterly dividend nearly in half

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A man walks near a Walgreens pharmacy on March 09, 2023 in New York City.  Leonardo Munoz | Corbis News | Getty Images Walgreens reported fiscal first-quarter adjusted earnings and revenue that topped expectations on Thursday, but cut its quarterly dividend nearly in half.  The retail … Read more

Moderna stock pops after Oppenheimer says Covid shot maker could launch more products over next two years

Moderna stock pops after Oppenheimer says Covid shot maker could launch more products over next two years

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty Images Shares of Moderna jumped more than 15% on Tuesday after Oppenheimer upgraded the stock to “outperform,” saying the Covid vaccine maker could market five products by 2026. The upgrade follows a dismal 2023 for Moderna, whose only commercially available … Read more

Biden administration’s Medicare drug price negotiations will face major tests in 2024

Biden administration’s Medicare drug price negotiations will face major tests in 2024

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Activists protest the price of prescription drug costs in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) building on October 06, 2022 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images U.S. patients and drugmakers will get a first glimpse of how much Medicare … Read more

Weight loss drugs, Alzheimer’s treatments and gene editing: Enormous firsts defined 2023 in pharma

Weight loss drugs, Alzheimer’s treatments and gene editing: Enormous firsts defined 2023 in pharma

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Soumyabrata Roy | Nurphoto | Getty Images Drugmakers are closing out a year when they achieved several historic firsts that will shape the pharmaceutical industry in 2024 and beyond.  The weight loss drug market transformed into the pharmaceutical industry’s newest gold rush this year, as demand … Read more

The weight loss drug boom isn’t over yet — here’s what to expect in the year ahead

The weight loss drug boom isn’t over yet — here’s what to expect in the year ahead

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE George Frey | Bloomberg | Getty Images Weight loss drugs exploded into the public eye this year, and 2024 will bring more change to the evolving market.  The drugs skyrocketed in popularity in 2023 as they helped patients shed significant weight, despite hefty price tags, mixed … Read more

Moderna, Merck vaccine with Keytruda delays return of deadly skin cancer after 3 years, data says

Moderna, Merck vaccine with Keytruda delays return of deadly skin cancer after 3 years, data says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE An exterior view of Moderna’s clinical manufacturing facility.  David L. Ryan | Boston Globe | Getty Images Moderna and Merck‘s experimental cancer vaccine, when used in combination with Merck’s blockbuster therapy Keytruda, reduced the risk of death or relapse in patients with the most deadly form … Read more

Vertex shares pop after non-opioid painkiller posts positive mid-stage trial results

Vertex shares pop after non-opioid painkiller posts positive mid-stage trial results

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A sign hangs in front of the world headquarters of Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., October 23, 2019.  Brian Snyder | Reuters Shares of Vertex jumped Wednesday after the company’s painkiller, which is being tested as an alternative to opioids, significantly decreased pain in a … Read more

Patients regain weight after stopping Eli Lilly’s Zepbound, study says

Patients regain weight after stopping Eli Lilly’s Zepbound, study says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eli Lilly’s drug tirzepatide was approved for weight loss by the FDA. Courtesy of Eli Lilly Patients who took Eli Lilly‘s weight loss drug Zepbound regained around half of the weight they shed after stopping the newly approved treatment for a year, according to data released … Read more

Cigna shares jump on reports of abandoned Humana buyout, plans for $10 billion stock buyback

Cigna shares jump on reports of abandoned Humana buyout, plans for  billion stock buyback

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of Cigna jumped Monday following reports that the health-care giant has scrapped its plans to buy rival Humana due to disagreements on price, putting an early end to what would have been one of the largest deals of … Read more

Biden administration asserts power to seize drug patents in move to slash high prices

Biden administration asserts power to seize drug patents in move to slash high prices

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE President Joe Biden speaks about protecting Social Security, Medicare, and lowering prescription drug costs, during a visit to OB Johnson Park and Community Center, in Hallandale Beach, Florida, on Nov. 1, 2022. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The Biden administration on Thursday asserted its authority to seize … Read more

AbbVie to acquire neuroscience drugmaker Cerevel Therapeutics for $8.7 billion

AbbVie to acquire neuroscience drugmaker Cerevel Therapeutics for .7 billion

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A sign stands outside a Abbvie facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 20, 2021. Brian Snyder | Reuters AbbVie on Wednesday said it will acquire neuroscience drugmaker Cerevel Therapeutics for roughly $8.7 billion.  Under the terms of the deal, AbbVie will pay $45 per share for Cerevel. … Read more

Eli Lilly weight loss drug Zepbound now available at pharmacies as rival Wegovy faces shortages

Eli Lilly weight loss drug Zepbound now available at pharmacies as rival Wegovy faces shortages

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The FDA approves Eli Lilly’s Zepbound, a weight loss drug similar to Ozempic and Wegovy. Courtesy: Eli Lilly Eli Lilly on Tuesday said its recently approved weight loss treatment Zepbound is now available at pharmacies across the U.S., serving as an alternative to rival obesity drugs … Read more

CVS to change how it prices prescription drugs with new pharmacy reimbursement model

CVS to change how it prices prescription drugs with new pharmacy reimbursement model

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A sign outside a CVS Health store in Miami, Aug. 1, 2023. Joe Raedle | Getty Images CVS Health on Tuesday said will revamp how it prices prescription drugs and scrap a complex model that typically sets how much pharmacies get reimbursed and what patients pay … Read more

Free ChatGPT may incorrectly answer drug questions, study says

Free ChatGPT may incorrectly answer drug questions, study says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Harun Ozalp | Anadolu | Getty Images The free version of ChatGPT may provide inaccurate or incomplete responses — or no answer at all — to questions related to medications, which could potentially endanger patients who use OpenAI’s viral chatbot, a new study released Tuesday suggests. … Read more

Roche enters obesity market with Carmot takeover but drugs may not be available until 2030

Roche enters obesity market with Carmot takeover but drugs may not be available until 2030

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE BRAZIL – 2021/11/26: In this photo illustration a F. HoffmannLa Roche AG logo is seen on a screen and a hand holding a pill. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Roche is set … Read more

Pfizer’s twice-daily weight loss pill joins a long list of obesity drug flops

Pfizer’s twice-daily weight loss pill joins a long list of obesity drug flops

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Pfizer’s twice-daily version of its experimental weight loss pill has now joined a long list of other scrapped drugs that aimed to treat obesity but came with unintended consequences.  The drugmaker on Friday said it will stop developing the … Read more

Pfizer to discontinue twice-daily weight loss pill due to high rates of adverse side effects

Pfizer to discontinue twice-daily weight loss pill due to high rates of adverse side effects

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pfizer on Friday said it would stop developing the twice-daily version of its experimental weight loss pill after obese patients taking the drug lost weight but had trouble tolerating the drug in a mid-stage clinical study.  The drugmaker observed high rates of adverse side effects, which … Read more

Novo Nordisk sues two pharmacies for allegedly selling tainted Wegovy, Ozempic knockoffs

Novo Nordisk sues two pharmacies for allegedly selling tainted Wegovy, Ozempic knockoffs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A 0.25 mg injection pen of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy is shown in this photo illustration in Oslo, Norway, August 31, 2023. Victoria Klesty | Reuters Novo Nordisk on Thursday said it sued two compounding pharmacies in Florida for allegedly selling impure and “potentially unsafe” … Read more

Biotech stocks jump on AbbVie deal to buy cancer drugmaker ImmunoGen for $10 billion

Biotech stocks jump on AbbVie deal to buy cancer drugmaker ImmunoGen for  billion

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Test tubes are seen in front of a displayed Abbvie logo in this illustration taken, May 21, 2021. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Biotech stocks rose Thursday as AbbVie announced plans to buy cancer drug developer ImmunoGen for $10.1 billion.  Shares of ImmunoGen jumped more than 80% … Read more

Covid vaccine rates in the U.S. are slumping — and it will be a challenge to boost them

Covid vaccine rates in the U.S. are slumping — and it will be a challenge to boost them

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The new vaccine COMIRNATY® (Covid-19 vaccine, mRNA) by Pfizer, available at CVS Pharmacy in Eagle Rock, California. Irfan Khan | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Three years into the Covid-19 pandemic, few Americans are rolling up their sleeves to get a Covid vaccine.  Only 15.7% … Read more

Mounjaro is more effective than Ozempic for weight loss in overweight and obese adults, real world study says

Mounjaro is more effective than Ozempic for weight loss in overweight and obese adults, real world study says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pharmacist displays a box of Mounjaro, a tirzepatide injection drug used for treating type 2 diabetes and made by Lilly at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, May 29, 2023. George Frey | Reuters The blockbuster diabetes drug Mounjaro is more effective for weight loss … Read more

U.S. to offer another round of free at-home Covid tests starting Monday

U.S. to offer another round of free at-home Covid tests starting Monday

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE COVID-19 home test kits are pictured in a store window during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 19, 2022. Carlo Allegri | Reuters The Biden administration on Monday said it is offering another round of … Read more

CDC expedites release of more doses of infant RSV drug from Sanofi, AstraZeneca amid shortage

CDC expedites release of more doses of infant RSV drug from Sanofi, AstraZeneca amid shortage

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A RSV-infected child receives treatment, as RS-Virus infections spread among children at Missio children’s clinic Moenchberg, in Wuerzburg, Germany, December 2, 2022.  Heiko Becker | Reuters The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expedited the release of more than 77,000 additional doses of a new drug … Read more

Pfizer wants in on the weight loss drug market – and upcoming data will be crucial for its success

Pfizer wants in on the weight loss drug market – and upcoming data will be crucial for its success

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images As its Covid gains evaporate, Pfizer wants a chunk of the budding weight loss drug market.  Analysts say upcoming data on Pfizer’s experimental obesity pill, danuglipron, will be crucial in determining how competitive the company can be against the … Read more

FDA approves Eli Lilly’s tirzepatide for weight loss, paving way for wider use of blockbuster drug

FDA approves Eli Lilly’s tirzepatide for weight loss, paving way for wider use of blockbuster drug

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pharmacist displays boxes of Ozempic, a semaglutide injection drug used for treating type 2 diabetes made by Novo Nordisk, at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, on March 29, 2023. George Frey | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Eli Lilly‘s blockbuster … Read more

Pharmacy walkout organizers help launch national push to unionize pharmacists, technicians

Pharmacy walkout organizers help launch national push to unionize pharmacists, technicians

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A small number of employees and supporters picket outside the headquarters of drugstore chain Walgreens during a three-day walkout by pharmacists in Deerfield, Illinois, November 1, 2023. Vincent Alban | Reuters The organizers of a recent retail pharmacy staff walkout are helping to launch a national … Read more

Novo Nordisk says 80% of insured U.S. patients taking Wegovy pay less than $25 a month

Novo Nordisk says 80% of insured U.S. patients taking Wegovy pay less than  a month

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Still life of Wegovy an injectable prescription weight loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. It should be used with a weight loss plan and physical activity.  Michael Siluk | UCG | Getty Images Novo Nordisk on Thursday said 80% of U.S. patients with insurance … Read more

Eli Lilly says supply of blockbuster diabetes drug Mounjaro has improved in U.S.

Eli Lilly says supply of blockbuster diabetes drug Mounjaro has improved in U.S.

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pharmacist displays boxes of Ozempic, a semaglutide injection drug used for treating type 2 diabetes made by Novo Nordisk, at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, March 29, 2023. George Frey | Reuters Eli Lilly on Thursday said supply of its blockbuster diabetes drug Mounjaro … Read more

Eli Lilly results top estimates on Mounjaro strength but slashes full-year profit outlook

Eli Lilly results top estimates on Mounjaro strength but slashes full-year profit outlook

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 on Thursday reported third-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that topped estimates on strong demand for its diabetes drug Mounjaro, but slashed its full-year profit guidance due … Read more

Moderna posts quarterly loss as company takes $1.3 billion write-down on unused Covid shots

Moderna posts quarterly loss as company takes .3 billion write-down on unused Covid shots

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Nikos Pekiaridis | Lightrocket | Getty Images Moderna on Thursday posted a steep loss for the third quarter as the drugmaker recorded a large write-down due to unused Covid vaccines, its only marketable products.  Moderna’s total revenue for the period topped Wall Street’s expectations, even amid … Read more

CVS results top expectations, lifted by strong health services revenue

CVS results top expectations, lifted by strong health services revenue

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A woman walks past a CVS Pharmacy in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 2, 2022. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images CVS on Wednesday reported third-quarter adjusted earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street’s expectations, lifted in part by strong revenue from the company’s health services … Read more

Pfizer swings to quarterly loss due to Paxlovid, Covid vaccine write-offs

Pfizer swings to quarterly loss due to Paxlovid, Covid vaccine write-offs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Pfizer on Tuesday reported a narrower than expected loss for the third quarter as the drugmaker recorded charges largely related to struggles for its Covid antiviral treatment Paxlovid and Covid vaccine. Pfizer said that it recorded a $5.6 billion … Read more

Some pharmacy staff from Walgreens, other chains are walking out again — here’s what you need to know

Some pharmacy staff from Walgreens, other chains are walking out again — here’s what you need to know

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A sign advertises COVID-19 (coronavirus) vaccine shots at a Walgreens Pharmacy in Somerville, Massachusetts, August 14, 2023. Brian Snyder | Reuters Some pharmacy staff from Walgreens and other drugstore chains are planning to walk out next week in the latest pushback against what they call unsafe … Read more

Pharmacy staff from Walgreens, CVS say they’re at a breaking point — here’s what their days look like

Pharmacy staff from Walgreens, CVS say they’re at a breaking point — here’s what their days look like

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Signs offering COVID-19 vaccinations are seen outside of a CVS pharmacy in Washington, DC. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Many pharmacy employees at some of the largest U.S. drugstore chains say they’re reaching a breaking point.  On top of verifying, filling and dispensing prescriptions, … Read more

Pfizer’s combination Covid, flu vaccine will move to final-stage trial after positive data

Pfizer’s combination Covid, flu vaccine will move to final-stage trial after positive data

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Pfizer on Thursday said its combination vaccine candidates targeting Covid and the flu will move to a final-stage trial in the coming months after showing positive initial results in an early to mid-stage study. That moves the pharmaceutical giant … Read more

Bristol Myers Squibb earnings top estimates even as top-selling drug fights generic competition

Bristol Myers Squibb results top estimates as new drugs post strong sales growth 

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Bristol Myers Squibb on Thursday reported quarterly adjusted earnings that topped expectations and posted revenue in line with estimates, even as sales of the company’s popular blood cancer drug Revlimid plummeted due to generic competition.  Bristol Myers, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, raked in … Read more

Merck results beat expectations on strong Keytruda, Gardasil and Covid drug growth

Merck results beat expectations on strong Keytruda, Gardasil and Covid drug growth

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Merck headquarters in Rahway, New Jersey, on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Christopher Occhicone | Bloomberg | Getty Images Merck on Thursday reported third-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that topped expectations on strong sales of its blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda, HPV vaccine Gardasil and surprisingly, its Covid … Read more

More convenient form of breakthrough Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi shows promising results in study

More convenient form of breakthrough Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi shows promising results in study

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eisai on Wednesday said an injectable version of the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi showed promising initial results in a clinical trial, potentially paving the way for a new and more convenient option for administering the antibody treatment.  However, the injection did not cause lower rates of brain … Read more

RSV vaccine from GSK shows potential to protect adults 50 to 59

RSV vaccine from GSK shows potential to protect adults 50 to 59

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline showed the potential to protect adults ages 50 to 59 from respiratory syncytial virus in a late-stage clinical trial, the company said Wednesday. The initial trial results suggest that GSK’s shot, known as Arexvy, could help protect a wider population from RSV, … Read more

CVS to pull certain cold medicines containing decongestant phenylephrine from store shelves

CVS to pull certain cold medicines containing decongestant phenylephrine from store shelves

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Cold and flu medicine including NyQuil sit on a store shelf in Miami on Sept. 12, 2023. Joe Raedle | Getty Images CVS is removing some of the most common cough and cold medicines from its store shelves and will no longer sell them, a company … Read more

Sanofi to offer insulin product for $35 to all Americans through GoodRx

Sanofi to offer insulin product for  to all Americans through GoodRx

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Sanofi Lantus 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 Americans, regardless of their insurance status, can now access Sanofi‘s most widely prescribed insulin for $35 … Read more

Pfizer to price Covid drug Paxlovid at $1,390 per course

Pfizer to price Covid drug Paxlovid at ,390 per course

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Paxlovid, Pfizer’s anti-viral medication to treat the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is displayed in this picture illustration taken October 7, 2022. Wolfgang Rattay | Reuters Pfizer will price a five-day course of its Covid antiviral drug Paxlovid at $1,390 when the company starts to transition it to … Read more

Johnson & Johnson beats on earnings and hikes outlook as medtech, pharmaceutical sales surge

Johnson & Johnson beats on earnings and hikes outlook as medtech, pharmaceutical sales surge

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE An entry sign to the Johnson & Johnson campus shows their logo in Irvine, California on August 28, 2019. Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday reported adjusted earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street’s expectations, driven by a surge in sales … Read more

Pharmacy staff from Walgreens, other chains could stage nationwide walkout and rallies in coming weeks

Pharmacy staff from Walgreens, other chains could stage nationwide walkout and rallies in coming weeks

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A woman walks near a Walgreens pharmacy on March 09, 2023 in New York City.  Leonardo Munoz | Corbis News | Getty Images Pharmacy staff from Walgreens are laying the groundwork for a nationwide walkout and multiple rallies at the end of October to protest unsatisfactory … Read more

Novo Nordisk hikes outlook on soaring demand for Wegovy, Ozempic

Novo Nordisk hikes outlook on soaring demand for Wegovy, Ozempic

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE An Ozempic injection pen is seen on a kitchen table in Riga, Latvia, on Aug. 6, 2023. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Novo Nordisk on Friday raised its outlook for its full-year sales and operating profit due to soaring demand for its blockbuster weight … Read more

Incoming Walgreens CEO doesn’t mention walkouts as he praises pharmacy staff

Incoming Walgreens CEO doesn’t mention walkouts as he praises pharmacy staff

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Tim Wentworth, CEO of Express Scripts.  David A. Grogan | CNBC Incoming Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth on Thursday briefly praised the company’s pharmacy staff, but made no mention of the three-day protest walkouts they held this week over poor working conditions. The walkouts reflect rising dissatisfaction … Read more

Walgreens profit outlook comes up short as demand declines for Covid vaccines and tests

Walgreens profit outlook comes up short as demand declines for Covid vaccines and tests

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A man walks near a Walgreens pharmacy on March 09, 2023 in New York City.  Leonardo Munoz | Corbis News | Getty Images Walgreens on Thursday offered soft profit guidance and reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings that fell short of expectations, as demand for Covid vaccines and … Read more

Cramer says Vertex has a drug that may address the ‘largest market opportunity in the world’

Cramer says Vertex has a drug that may address the ‘largest market opportunity in the world’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Jim Cramer on Squawk on the Street, June 30, 2022. Virginia Sherwood | CNBC CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday suggested that investors keep an eye on Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX), a biotechnology company developing a drug to treat acute pain that is not an opioid. “The biggest … Read more

Novavax’s updated Covid vaccine can still catch up to Pfizer, Moderna shots this fall

Novavax’s updated Covid vaccine can still catch up to Pfizer, Moderna shots this fall

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A health worker prepares a dose of the Novavax vaccine as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. Patrick Van Katwijk | Getty Images Americans can finally get their hands on Novavax‘s newest Covid … Read more

Kaiser Permanente health workers threaten more strikes if demands not met

Kaiser Permanente health workers threaten more strikes if demands not met

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Striking Kaiser Permanente workers hold signs as they march in front of the Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center on October 06, 2023 in Vallejo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Kaiser Permanente workers on Friday threatened further strikes if executives don’t meet their demands over health-care … Read more

Kaiser Permanente workers strike for second day after negotiations fail to reach labor contract

Kaiser Permanente workers strike for second day after negotiations fail to reach labor contract

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Kaiser Permanente employees, joined by Union members representing the workers, walk the picket line in Los Angeles, California on October 4, 2023.  Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers remained on strike for a second day after negotiators … Read more

Weight loss drugs may be linked to stomach paralysis, other rare but severe issues, study says

Weight loss drugs may be linked to stomach paralysis, other rare but severe issues, study says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Still life of Wegovy an injectable prescription weight loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. It should be used with a weight loss plan and physical activity.  Michael Siluk | UCG | Getty Images Blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic may … Read more

Lab owner who defrauded Medicare to forfeit $187 million, Ferrari

Lab owner who defrauded Medicare to forfeit 7 million, Ferrari

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Exhibit from court record: 2018 Red Ferrari Spider. Source: U.S. DOJ A Miami federal judge ordered a lab owner convicted of defrauding Medicare to forfeit more than $187 million worth of proceeds from the scam, including $30 million in cash, a 2018 Ferrari Spider and real … Read more

More than 75,000 workers to strike at hundreds of Kaiser Permanente health facilities across U.S.

More than 75,000 workers to strike at hundreds of Kaiser Permanente health facilities across U.S.

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A Kaiser Permanente health care center is pictured in Anaheim, California, U.S., October 3, 2023 as more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers could go on strike from Oct. 4 to Oct. 7 across the United States.  Mike Blake | Reuters Workers at Kaiser Permanente — … Read more

Moderna combination Covid, flu vaccine moves to final stage trial after positive data

Moderna stock pops after Oppenheimer says Covid shot maker could launch more products over next two years

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty Images Moderna on Wednesday said its combination vaccine targeting Covid and the flu will move to a final stage trial in adults ages 50 and above this year after showing positive results in an early to mid-stage study. The biotech … Read more

It’s time to get bullish on this health tech name, now that it’s shed a drag on growth

It’s time to get bullish on this health tech name, now that it’s shed a drag on growth

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE We care much more about where a stock is going than where it’s been. With the spin-off of Veralto (VLTO) complete, we decided to look at the path ahead for Danaher (DHR) — now free of its slower-growing, lower-margin water business. In the separation , we … Read more

FDA approves updated Novavax Covid vaccine as Pfizer, Moderna shots roll out in U.S.

FDA approves updated Novavax Covid vaccine as Pfizer, Moderna shots roll out in U.S.

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A vial labelled “Novavax V COVID-19 Vaccine” is seen in this illustration taken January 16, 2022.  Dado Ruvic | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Novavax‘s updated Covid vaccine under emergency use, putting the shot on track to roll out weeks after new … Read more

Drugmakers opt in to Medicare drug price negotiations – here’s what happens next

Drugmakers opt in to Medicare drug price negotiations – here’s what happens next

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pharmacist holds a bottle of the drug Eliquis, made by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, January 9, 2020. George Frey | Reuters All drugmakers of the first 10 medicines selected for Medicare drug price negotiations have agreed to participate in the talks, … Read more

Kaiser Permanente union workers poised to strike after contract expires

Kaiser Permanente union workers poised to strike after contract expires

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A sign is posted on the exterior of the Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center on September 08, 2023 in Vallejo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images More than 75,000 workers at the largest nonprofit private health-care provider in the United States are poised to strike Wednesday … Read more

Federal judge declines to block Medicare price negotiations

Federal judge declines to block Medicare price negotiations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pharmacist holds a bottle of the drug Eliquis, made by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, January 9, 2020. George Frey | Reuters A federal judge on Friday declined to block the Biden administration from implementing Medicare drug price negotiations, upholding for now … Read more

Shares of biotech startup Structure Therapeutics surge more than 30% on promising obesity pill data

Shares of biotech startup Structure Therapeutics surge more than 30% on promising obesity pill data

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Aykut Karahan | Istock | Getty Images Shares of Structure Therapeutics rose more than 30% on Friday after the biotech startup’s experimental obesity pill succeeded in a small early-stage trial.  The once-daily drug helped overweight or obese participants reduce up to 10 pounds of weight on … Read more

Ad spending for obesity, diabetes drugs is soaring this year, as drugmakers shell out nearly $500 million

Ad spending for obesity, diabetes drugs is soaring this year, as drugmakers shell out nearly 0 million

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A view of a plastic model of a stomach during an interview with Doctor Thomas Horbach, specialist in surgery, visceral surgery and nutritional medicine on Novo Nordisk, which will start selling its hugely popular obesity drug Wegovy in Germany later this month, in Munich, Germany, July … Read more

AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim to participate in Medicare drug price negotiations

AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim to participate in Medicare drug price negotiations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo illustration, Farxiga is made available to customers at the New City Halsted Pharmacy on August 29, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images AstraZeneca and Boehringer Ingelheim on Wednesday told CNBC they will agree to participate in the first round of … Read more

Ozempic, Wegovy drug prescriptions hit 9 million, surge 300% in under three years

Ozempic, Wegovy drug prescriptions hit 9 million, surge 300% in under three years

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pharmacist displays boxes of Ozempic, a semaglutide injection drug used for treating type 2 diabetes made by Novo Nordisk, at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S. March 29, 2023.  George Frey | Reuters U.S. health care providers wrote more than nine million prescriptions for … Read more

Miami man pleads guilty to selling adulterated, misbranded HIV drugs across United States

Miami man pleads guilty to selling adulterated, misbranded HIV drugs across United States

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A Miami man has pleaded guilty in federal court to distributing at least $16.7 million of adulterated HIV drugs dispensed to U.S. patients. Miami Herald | Tribune News Service | Getty Images A Miami man pleaded guilty to distributing as much as $25 million worth of … Read more

Pfizer restarts production at tornado-hit North Carolina plant, but drug supply will still be affected

Pfizer restarts production at tornado-hit North Carolina plant, but drug supply will still be affected

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this aerial image, damage is seen to a Pfizer pharmaceutical factory after a tornado hit the facility two days earlier, on July 21, 2023 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Sean Rayford | Getty Images Pfizer on Monday said it has restarted most production lines at … Read more

Merck Covid drug linked to virus mutations that can spread between people, new study says

Merck Covid drug linked to virus mutations that can spread between people, new study says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A worker handles a bottle of Merck & Co. and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LPs Molnupiravir antiviral medication in a warehouse in Shoham, Israel, on Jan. 18, 2022. A fourth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was insufficient to prevent infection with the omicron variant of Covid-19, according to preliminary … Read more

More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers threaten strike if labor agreement not reached

More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers threaten strike if labor agreement not reached

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Thousands of healthcare workers march down Vermont to call for the urgent need for improved working conditions, better support systems and increased investment in the healthcare workforce at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Hollywood on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. Dania … Read more

CDC advisors recommend Pfizer maternal RSV vaccine to protect infants

CDC advisors recommend Pfizer maternal RSV vaccine to protect infants

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A doctor vaccinates an infant against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in a treatment room of her paediatric practice. Swen Pförtner | Picture Alliance | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent panel of advisors on Friday recommended Pfizer‘s maternal vaccine that protects infants … Read more

FTC sues Texas anesthesiology provider to bust monopoly

FTC sues Texas anesthesiology provider to bust monopoly

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on “Oversight of the Federal Trade Commission,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 13, 2023. Kevin Wurm | Reuters The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued the largest anesthesiology provider in Texas, … Read more

Florida nurse practitioner convicted in $200 million Medicare fraud scheme

Florida nurse practitioner convicted in 0 million Medicare fraud scheme

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Michael Nesterov | Istock | Getty Images A federal jury in Miami convicted a Florida nurse practitioner of health-care conspiracy and other charges for playing a key role in a scheme that swindled hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare. Elizabeth Hernandez, 45, fraudulently billed Medicare … Read more

Florida nurse convicted in $200 million Medicare fraud scheme

Florida nurse practitioner convicted in 0 million Medicare fraud scheme

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Michael Nesterov | Istock | Getty Images A federal jury in Miami convicted a Florida nurse practitioner of heath-care conspiracy and other charges for playing a key role in a scheme that swindled hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare. Elizabeth Hernandez, 45, fraudulently billed Medicare … Read more

Fall Covid shot rollout gets off to a bumpy start as some patients see insurance delays

Fall Covid shot rollout gets off to a bumpy start as some patients see insurance delays

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pharmacist Ani Martirosyan administers an immunization to a patient at a CVS on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023 in Glendale, CA. Brian Van Der Brug | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images The rollout of a new round of Covid vaccines in the U.S. is off to … Read more

Eli Lilly sues clinics allegedly selling knockoff versions of Mounjaro diabetes drug

Eli Lilly sues clinics allegedly selling knockoff versions of Mounjaro diabetes drug

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pharmacist displays boxes of Ozempic, a semaglutide injection drug used for treating type 2 diabetes made by Novo Nordisk, at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, March 29, 2023. George Frey | Reuters Eli Lilly on Tuesday sued 10 medical spas, wellness clinics and compounding … Read more

Uninsured Americans can still get free Covid boosters — here’s how to find them

Uninsured Americans can still get free Covid boosters — here’s how to find them

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pharmacist Aaron Sun administers new vaccine COMIRNATY® by Pfizer, to Jimmy Smagula at CVS Pharmacy in Eagle Rock, CA. Irfan Khan | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Uninsured Americans can now get the newest Covid vaccines for free at certain locations across the country, just … Read more

Covid, RSV and flu vaccines are now available — here’s how to decide whether to get them together

Covid, RSV and flu vaccines are now available — here’s how to decide whether to get them together

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pharmacist Ani Martirosyan administers an immunization to a patient at a CVS on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023 in Glendale, CA.  Brian Van Der Brug | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images For the first time ever, vaccines for Covid, the flu and respiratory syncytial virus are … Read more

More than 60,000 Kaiser Permanente workers vote to authorize strike

More than 60,000 Kaiser Permanente workers vote to authorize strike

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Kaiser Permanente mental health workers and supporters march outside a Kaiser facility in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Rich Pedroncelli | AP More than 60,000 health care workers on Thursday voted to authorize a strike against Kaiser Permanente if an agreement is not reached when … Read more

Planned Parenthood will resume abortions in Wisconsin after court rules against 1849 ban

Planned Parenthood will resume abortions in Wisconsin after court rules against 1849 ban

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo is the Madison South Health Center that is owned and operated by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. Kevin Wang | AP Planned Parenthood will resume abortions in Wisconsin next week, after a state court ruled that a 174-year-old criminal law does not ban the … Read more

New Covid vaccines could reach Americans as soon as Thursday – here’s what you need to know

New Covid vaccines could reach Americans as soon as Thursday – here’s what you need to know

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A nurse prepares doses of the Pfizer vaccine during a COVID-19 vaccination event at Josephine’s Southern Cooking in Chatham, Illinois, Dec. 30, 2021. Brian Cassella | Tribune News Service | Getty Images A new round of Covid vaccines is finally here in the U.S. The Centers … Read more

Moderna says flu vaccine showed promising results in phase three trial, paving path to approval

Moderna says flu vaccine showed promising results in phase three trial, paving path to approval

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A nurse prepares a flu shot at Huntington Village Pediatrics, in Huntington, New York on December 8, 2021. Steve Pfost | Newsday | Getty Images Moderna on Wednesday said its experimental mRNA-based flu vaccine produced a stronger immune response against four strains of the virus than … Read more

CDC advisors recommend updated Covid vaccines for all Americans ages 6 months and up

CDC advisors recommend updated Covid vaccines for all Americans ages 6 months and up

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A vial of the Moderna coronavirus booster vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants is pictured at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, Sept. 8, 2022. Hannah Beier | Reuters An independent advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended that all … Read more

Decongestant found in many cold, allergy medicines doesn’t actually work, FDA advisors say

Decongestant found in many cold, allergy medicines doesn’t actually work, FDA advisors say

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A combination package of Procter & Gamble Co. DayQuil Severe and NyQuil Severe brand cold and flu medicine is arranged for a photograph in Tiskilwa, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images The main ingredient used in many popular over-the-counter cold and allergy medications doesn’t … Read more

FDA approves updated Covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna as hospitalizations rise

FDA approves updated Covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna as hospitalizations rise

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A health-care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved updated Covid vaccines from Pfizer … Read more

Ozempic, Wegovy may curb drinking, smoking and other addictive behaviors – here’s what we know

Ozempic, Wegovy may curb drinking, smoking and other addictive behaviors – here’s what we know

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE An Ozempic (semaglutide) injection pen is seen on a kitchen table in Riga, Latvia on 06 August, 2023.  Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Heather Le Biller shed 9 pounds within the first week of taking Novo Nordisk‘s blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic – and then … Read more

Danco Laboratories asks Supreme Court to decide abortion pill case

Danco Laboratories asks Supreme Court to decide abortion pill case

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on abortion rights in a speech hosted by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) at the Howard Theatre in Washington, October 18, 2022. Leah Millis | Reuters The drug company Danco Laboratories has asked the Supreme Court to review the case … Read more

Carl Icahn says new Illumina CEO has his ‘full support’ months after proxy fight

Carl Icahn says new Illumina CEO has his ‘full support’ months after proxy fight

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Carl Icahn speaking at Delivering Alpha in New York on Sept. 13, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Carl Icahn on Thursday expressed his support for Illumina‘s new CEO Jacob Thaysen – a relief for the company as it tries to rebound from a bitter proxy … Read more

Covid hospitalizations spike with new variant as school returns, U.S. readies vaccines

Covid hospitalizations spike with new variant as school returns, U.S. readies vaccines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Medical staff treat a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient in their isolation room on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, U.S., January 4, 2022. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Covid hospitalizations are increasing substantially across much of the U.S. for the … Read more

Moderna says updated Covid vaccine was effective against highly mutated BA.2.86 variant in trial

Moderna says updated Covid vaccine was effective against highly mutated BA.2.86 variant in trial

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty Images Moderna‘s new Covid vaccine produced a strong immune response against BA.2.86, a highly mutated omicron variant that health officials are watching closely, according to clinical trial data the biotech company released Wednesday.  The updated shot produced an 8.7-fold increase … Read more

The FTC cleared Amgen’s $27.8 billion Horizon buyout — here’s what it means for other massive pharma deals

The FTC cleared Amgen’s .8 billion Horizon buyout — here’s what it means for other massive pharma deals

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Robert Galbraith | Reuters The Federal Trade Commission last week allowed Amgen to move forward with its $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics under a settlement agreement –  a move that could have ramifications for a string of other pharmaceutical industry buyouts. Some Wall Street analysts … Read more

Illumina names new CEO months after Icahn proxy fight over Grail deal

Illumina names new CEO months after Icahn proxy fight over Grail deal

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A building on the campus at the world headquarters of Illumina is shown in San Diego, California, Sept. 1, 2021. Mike Blake | Reuters Illumina‘s board on Tuesday named Jacob Thaysen the DNA sequencing company’s new CEO as it tries to rebound from a grinding dispute … Read more

Can you use expired Covid tests? What to know as cases rise, new variants emerge

Can you use expired Covid tests? What to know as cases rise, new variants emerge

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo illustration, Abbott’s at-home covid-19 rapid test kits are seen on display in Orlando. Paul Hennessy | LightRocket | Getty Images As Covid cases surge again in the U.S., Americans are digging out unused at-home tests that they stashed earlier on in the pandemic.  … Read more

Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy weight loss drug launches in the UK

Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy weight loss drug launches in the UK

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Packages of the weight-loss drug Wegovy from the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk lie on the sales counter in a Danish pharmacy. Stefan Trumpf | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Novo Nordisk launched its Wegovy weight loss injection in the U.K. on Monday, advancing the drug’s rollout … Read more

Judge withdraws from Medicare drug price case after stock ownership is revealed

Judge withdraws from Medicare drug price case after stock ownership is revealed

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, right, shakes hands with Judge Thomas Rose of the U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio after taking his oath of office, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, in Cedarville, Ohio. John Minchillo | AP A federal judge on Friday withdrew from a case … Read more

When to wear masks as Covid cases rise, new variants emerge in the U.S.

When to wear masks as Covid cases rise, new variants emerge in the U.S.

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Michael Nason, 29, left, and Donna Nason, 25, right, both of Bakersfield are wearing a face mask in Union Station on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023, in Los Angeles, CA. COVID-19 making a comeback in California. Francine Orr | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images An uptick … Read more

FTC allows Amgen to move forward with $27.8 billion Horizon Therapeutics acquisition

FTC allows Amgen to move forward with .8 billion Horizon Therapeutics acquisition

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Amgen logo is displayed outside Amgen headquarters on May 17, 2023 in Thousand Oaks, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission on Friday said it has reached a deal with drug giant Amgen to allow the company’s $27.8 billion purchase of Horizon … Read more

Ozempic could be the next target of Medicare drug price negotiations – here’s why

Ozempic could be the next target of Medicare drug price negotiations – here’s why

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pharmacist displays boxes of Ozempic, a semaglutide injection drug used for treating type 2 diabetes made by Novo Nordisk, at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S. March 29, 2023.  George Frey | Reuters Ozempic, the blockbuster diabetes treatment from Novo Nordisk, could be next … Read more

HHS calls for easing restrictions on marijuana, sending cannabis stocks higher

HHS calls for easing restrictions on marijuana, sending cannabis stocks higher

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE James Romano trims flower while working in CommCans processing facility in Medway, MA on Oct. 27, 2021. Beneath the trimmed flower is a tray collecting shake, cannabis flower that has naturally broken down through handling. Shake can be used in CommCans pre-rolled joints or made into … Read more

Medicare wants to cut the price on an Eli Lilly drug. What is means for LLY shares

Medicare wants to cut the price on an Eli Lilly drug. What is means for LLY shares

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eli Lilly headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Eli Lilly & Co.’s shares climbed in early US trading after its experimental drug for Alzheimer’s slowed the progress of the disease in a final-stage trial, paving the way for the company to apply … Read more

Medicare drug price negotiations may have a muted impact on drugmakers in the near term

Medicare drug price negotiations may have a muted impact on drugmakers in the near term

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo illustration, Eliquis is made available to customers at the New City Halsted Pharmacy on August 29, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Medicare is set to negotiate prices for 10 different drugs with manufacturers in a bid to make those … Read more

Hurricane Idalia slams Florida coast with ‘life-threatening’ storm surge, damaging winds

Hurricane Idalia slams Florida coast with ‘life-threatening’ storm surge, damaging winds

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Reporters wade through flood waters as it inundates the downtown area after Hurricane Idalia passed offshore on August 30, 2023 in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Hurricane Idalia is moving inland after slamming into Florida’s Big Bend coast Wednesday morning as an ‘extremely … Read more

Covid fraud: Street gang in Milwaukee allegedly stole millions to pay for murder, guns and drugs

Covid fraud: Street gang in Milwaukee allegedly stole millions to pay for murder, guns and drugs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A street gang in Milwaukee, Wisc., allegedly stole millions of dollars in pandemic relief money that was then used to carry out a murder and purchase guns and drugs, among other items, according to a federal indictment. The 43-count indictment charges 30 members of the “Wild … Read more

Medicare pricing deal set to play a key role in Biden’s 2024 campaign pitch

Medicare pricing deal set to play a key role in Biden’s 2024 campaign pitch

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE US President Joe Biden speaks about lowering healthcare costs, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 29, 2023. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is placing a priority on reducing individual health-care costs as he … Read more

Here are the three most used drugs on the Medicare price negotiation list

Here are the three most used drugs on the Medicare price negotiation list

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Bottles of the drug Jardiance, made by Eli Lilly and Company, sit on a counter at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, January 9, 2020. George Frey | Reuters Two blood thinners and a diabetes medication are the most widely used among a list of ten drugs … Read more

Biden administration unveils first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiations

Biden administration unveils first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Kubra Cavus | Istock | Getty Images The Biden administration on Tuesday unveiled the first 10 prescription drugs that will be subject to price negotiations between manufacturers and Medicare, kicking off a controversial process that aims to make costly medications more affordable for older Americans.  President … Read more

The ADHD drug market is already stretched thin. Now it’s facing a back-to-school supply strain

The ADHD drug market is already stretched thin. Now it’s facing a back-to-school supply strain

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Ten milligram tablets of the hyperactivity drug, Adderall, made by Shire Plc. Jb Reed | Bloomberg | Getty Images It’s been 10 months since the Food and Drug Administration first announced a nationwide shortage of Adderall — one of the most widely used medications for attention … Read more

Wegovy helps reduce heart failure symptoms in obese people, study says

Wegovy helps reduce heart failure symptoms in obese people, study says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A selection of injector pens for the Wegovy weight loss drug are shown in this photo illustration in Chicago, Illinois, March 31, 2023. Jim Vondruska | Reuters Wegovy, the popular weight loss drug from Novo Nordisk, significantly reduced symptoms of a common type of heart failure … Read more

CDC expects new Covid vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax to be available in mid-September

CDC expects new Covid vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax to be available in mid-September

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A sign advertises COVID-19 (coronavirus) vaccine shots at a Walgreens Pharmacy in Somerville, Massachusetts, August 14, 2023. Brian Snyder | Reuters The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects updated Covid vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax to be available to the public in mid-September, an … Read more