Nvidia and Johnson & Johnson to develop new AI applications for surgery

Nvidia and Johnson & Johnson to develop new AI applications for surgery

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The New York Stock Exchange welcomes Johnson & Johnson. NYSE Johnson & Johnson on Monday announced it is working with Nvidia to develop and scale new artificial intelligence applications for surgery.  J&J’s MedTech unit and Nvidia plan to integrate AI within devices and platforms from pre-op … 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

Signos uses a glucose monitor patch and AI to help you eat healthier. Here’s what it’s like

Signos uses a glucose monitor patch and AI to help you eat healthier. Here’s what it’s like

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Ashley Capoot wearing a CGM. Ashley Capoot | CNBC As it turns out, exercise is good for you. So is sleep, and unfortunately, so are vegetables.  I’ve heard these health adages hundreds of times before, but they truly began to hit home for me this winter … Read more

Oura to sell its smart rings on Amazon as Apple, Samsung wearables competition grows

Oura to sell its smart rings on Amazon as Apple, Samsung wearables competition grows

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A closeup of Oura’s Gen3 Horizon ring and its sensors. Oura Oura will now sell its smart rings on Amazon, its latest retail expansion as the health and wellness wearable space continues to grow. Starting Thursday, Oura will have its full selection of rings and accessories … Read more

Change Healthcare sets up new electronic prescription service, funding program as cyberattack drags

Change Healthcare sets up new electronic prescription service, funding program as cyberattack drags

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo illustration, UnitedHealth Group Inc logo seen displayed on a tablet. Igor Golovniov | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Change Healthcare on Friday said it’s finished setting up a new electronic prescription service, which could help provide some relief to pharmacies and … Read more

The 11 GRANOLAS stocks power Europe to record highs, drawing Magnificent Seven comparisons

The 11 GRANOLAS stocks power Europe to record highs, drawing Magnificent Seven comparisons

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The German share price index DAX graph is pictured at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, January 19, 2024.  Staff | Reuters Over the last 12 months, just 11 stocks made up half of the gains that powered the pan-European Stoxx 600 stock index to a … Read more

The 11 GRANOLAS stocks power Europe to record highs, drawing Magnificent Seven comparisons

The 11 GRANOLAS stocks power Europe to record highs, drawing Magnificent Seven comparisons

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The German share price index DAX graph is pictured at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, January 19, 2024.  Staff | Reuters Over the last 12 months, just 11 stocks made up half of the gains that powered the pan-European Stoxx 600 stock index to a … Read more

In this fast-paced bull market, we’re increasing our Club price targets on 4 stocks

In this fast-paced bull market, we’re increasing our Club price targets on 4 stocks

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE It’s been hard to keep up. That’s the story of the big stock winners this year. They just keep winning and winning and winning. For analysts on Wall Street and here at the Club, it seems like some of these names are smashing through our six-to-nine-month … Read more

Symptoms from excessive screen time cost the U.S. $73 billion a year, study finds

Symptoms from excessive screen time cost the U.S.  billion a year, study finds

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE American workers are spending too much time looking at screens. More than 104 million people in the U.S., including nearly 70% of people working office jobs, spend upwards of seven hours a day looking at screens, according to a Tuesday report from the Deloitte Economics Institute … 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

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

YouTube taps hospitals to create videos to help people witnessing an overdose or heart attack

YouTube taps hospitals to create videos to help people witnessing an overdose or heart attack

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People walk past a billboard advertisement for YouTube in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 27, 2019. Sean Gallup | Getty Images YouTube is taking steps to fight against medical misinformation, especially when it comes to finding immediate tips on how to handle an emergency. The company on … Read more

Reckitt Benckiser unit recalls possibly contaminated baby formula powder, FDA says

Reckitt Benckiser unit recalls possibly contaminated baby formula powder, FDA says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Enfimil infant formula, made by Mead Johnson Nutrition Co., sits on display in a supermarket in New York, U.S. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg News | Getty Images Baby formula maker Reckitt Benckiser’s Mead Johnson Nutrition has voluntarily chosen to recall certain batches of baby formula powder … Read more

Google is rolling out new AI models for health care. Here’s how doctors are using them

Google is rolling out new AI models for health care. Here’s how doctors are using them

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Bruegel think tank conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020. Yves Herman | Reuters Google on Wednesday announced MedLM, a suite of new health-care-specific artificial intelligence models designed to help clinicians and … Read more

U.S. approves first gene-editing treatment, Casgevy, for sickle cell disease

U.S. approves first gene-editing treatment, Casgevy, for sickle cell disease

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Blood sample tube with blood for Sickle Cell Screen -Test. Sickle cell blood test, abnormal hemoglobin test. Md Babul Hosen | Istock | Getty Images The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the country’s first gene-editing treatment, Casgevy, for use in patients with sickle cell … Read more

Reproductive startup launches test to identify an embryo’s genetic defects before an IVF pregnancy begins

Reproductive startup launches test to identify an embryo’s genetic defects before an IVF pregnancy begins

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Noor Siddiqui, founder and CEO of Orchid, during the web summit for careers during Day 2 of the 2014 Web Summit in Dublin, Ireland, Nov. 5, 2014. Stephen McCarthy | Getty Images Reproductive technology startup Orchid on Tuesday announced a comprehensive new genetic test that may … 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

Nashville’s startup scene is booming. Here’s why investors and founders are moving to ‘Music City’

Nashville’s startup scene is booming. Here’s why investors and founders are moving to ‘Music City’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – SEPTEMBER 1, 2019: Tourists visit the bars and country music venues in the Lower Broadway entertainment district in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images) Robert Alexander | Archive Photos | Getty Images On a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Nashville, Tennessee, … Read more

Cigna shares slide after report it could merge with Humana

Cigna shares slide after report it could merge with Humana

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Cigna Group headquarters in Bloomfield, Connecticut, US, on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023.  BlooJoe Buglewicz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Cigna slid on Wednesday after a report that the company is in talks with Humana about a merger between the two health care giants. … Read more

Patients are lining up for $2,500 full-body MRI scans that can detect cancer early

Patients are lining up for ,500 full-body MRI scans that can detect cancer early

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Prenuvo MRI machine Courtesy of Prenuvo While celebrating the July Fourth holiday last year on a boat in Tyler, Texas, Dr. Julianne Santarosa received the results from her full-body MRI scan. What she saw put a damper on the festivities. Radiologists at Prenuvo, which performed the … Read more

Amazon adds a new reason to get and keep Prime: member discounts on health-care services

Amazon adds a new reason to get and keep Prime: member discounts on health-care services

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Amazon (AMZN) said on Wednesday that it’s offering Prime members a discount on its new health-care service — another perk that should help bring more people into the online retailer’s ecosystem. The One Medical service, which typically costs $199 annually, will be available to Prime subscribers … 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

Planet Fitness shares surge as company raises revenue outlook

Planet Fitness shares surge as company raises revenue outlook

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A person works out at Planet Fitness as they re-open at 25 percent capacity in Boston’s Dorchester on Feb. 1, 2021. Jessica Rinaldi | Boston Globe | Getty Images Planet Fitness shares surged double-digits after beating expectations on both lines for the third quarter and raising … Read more

E-cigarette use declines among high school students, FDA and CDC say

E-cigarette use declines among high school students, FDA and CDC say

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Elf Bar disposable vape flavored vaping e-cigarette products are displayed in a convenience store on June 23, 2022 in El Segundo, California. – Vaping company Juul Labs said Thursday it would appeal a decision by the US Food and Drug Administration ordering all its products off … 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

Doctors have a new way to scrub personal information from internet after spike in harassment

Doctors have a new way to scrub personal information from internet after spike in harassment

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Doximity at the New York Stock Exchange for their IPO, June 24, 2021. Source: NYSE Doximity, the medical website that’s used by more than 80% of U.S. doctors, is now trying to protect its millions of members after a spike in harassment that started during the … 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

Amazon considers offering veterinary telehealth as it looks to compete with Walmart

Amazon considers offering veterinary telehealth as it looks to compete with Walmart

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Amazon is considering an expansion into veterinary telehealth in its latest bid to compete with Walmart, which began offering the service to Walmart+ subscribers earlier this year, people familiar with the matter told CNBC.  The e-commerce giant, which has already expanded into human health with its … Read more

Amazon begins delivering medications by drone in Texas

Amazon begins delivering medications by drone in Texas

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Amazon announced Friday it will soon begin making drone deliveries in College Station, Texas. Amazon Amazon Pharmacy customers located in College Station, Texas can now have their prescription medications delivered by drone, the company announced in a blog post Wednesday. Eligible customers can access more than … Read more

Rite Aid files for bankruptcy amid slowing sales, opioid litigation

Rite Aid files for bankruptcy amid slowing sales, opioid litigation

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A Rite Aid store stands in Brooklyn on August 28, 2023 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Rite Aid has filed for bankruptcy.  The beleaguered drugstore chain has been grappling with slowing sales, mounting debt and a slew of lawsuits that allege the … Read more

Pfizer slashes full-year earnings and revenue guidance as Covid treatment, vaccine sales slump

Pfizer slashes full-year earnings and revenue guidance as Covid treatment, vaccine sales slump

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks during a press conference with the president of the European Commission 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 | AFP … Read more

Biden praises Kaiser Permanente labor agreement after worker strike: ‘Collective bargaining works’

Biden praises Kaiser Permanente labor agreement after worker strike: ‘Collective bargaining works’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Healthcare workers strike in front of Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, as more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers go on strike from October 4 to 7 across the United States, in Los Angeles, California, October 4, 2023. Aude Guerrucci | Reuters More than 85,000 … 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

Period care brands August, Rael and others form coalition to fight the ‘tampon tax,’ reimburse consumers

Period care brands August, Rael and others form coalition to fight the ‘tampon tax,’ reimburse consumers

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Starting Wednesday, consumers paying state sales tax on menstrual products will be able to get those costs on some period care purchases reimbursed. The Tampon Tax Back Coalition — an initiative of period care brands August, Cora, LOLA, The Honey Pot, Rael, Here We Flo, Saalt … Read more

Walgreens names veteran health-care executive Tim Wentworth as next CEO

Walgreens names veteran health-care executive Tim Wentworth as next CEO

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A Walgreens sign is displayed on the window of one of its stores in Hollywood, California, on March 9, 2023. Stefani Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Walgreens Boots Alliance has chosen veteran health care executive Tim Wentworth as the company’s new chief executive. Wentworth is … Read more

How Ozempic and Wegovy turned Novo Nordisk into a $400 billion company

How Ozempic and Wegovy turned Novo Nordisk into a 0 billion company

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk has entered a new chapter in its 100-year history — thanks to its newfound success with two products: Ozempic and Wegovy.  The drugs are once-weekly injectables of a medication called semaglutide, prescribed for Type 2 diabetes and weight loss. Their skyrocketing popularity … Read more

Supreme Court declines to hear case challenging FDA authority to reject flavored e-cigarettes

Supreme Court declines to hear case challenging FDA authority to reject flavored e-cigarettes

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A woman smokes an E-Cigarette at Digital Ciggz in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear arguments in a case challenging the Food and Drug Administration‘s authority to reject approvals of flavored electronic cigarettes.  The case is … 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

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

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

Big Food vs. Big Pharma: Companies bet on snacking just as weight loss drugs boom

Big Food vs. Big Pharma: Companies bet on snacking just as weight loss drugs boom

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The snack aisle is seen during a tour of a new Amazon Go store in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. Chona Kasinger | Bloomberg | Getty Images For more than a century, frosted cornflakes have been the backbone … 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

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

Providers struggle to get latest Covid shots into arms amid early supply issues

Providers struggle to get latest Covid shots into arms amid early supply issues

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE New vaccine COMIRNATY® by Pfizer, available at CVS Pharmacy in Eagle Rock, California. Irfan Khan | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images It’s déjà vu for some Americans looking for the latest Covid-19 vaccines. Certain people who were lucky enough to snag an appointment for the … 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

Here are the risks to alcohol and food stocks from Ozempic-like weight loss drugs

Here are the risks to alcohol and food stocks from Ozempic-like weight loss drugs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The rise of new anti-obesity medications could result in less alcohol consumption, impacting Club name Constellation Brands (STZ). The risk already seems to be playing out in food stocks with exposure to snacks and junk food. However, if necessary, the Mexican beer powerhouse behind Corona, Modelo … Read more

Planet Fitness shares sink 15% after board ousts CEO in shocking move

Planet Fitness shares sink 15% after board ousts CEO in shocking move

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Chris Rondeau, CEO of Planet Fitness Adam Jeffery | CNBC In a move that stunned investors and employees alike, Planet Fitness ousted company veteran Chris Rondeau from his post as CEO, the workout chain said Friday in a press release. The stock dropped 15% in the … 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 York expands legal marijuana licenses — but some would-be retailers feel left behind

New York expands legal marijuana licenses — but some would-be retailers feel left behind

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A woman walks by a smoke shop in New York City that displays a marijuana leaf in the window, June 16, 2023. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images Coss Marte’s marijuana dispensary in lower Manhattan has already cost him over $1 million, and … 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

British American Tobacco finalizes Russia exit with sale to local managers

British American Tobacco finalizes Russia exit with sale to local managers

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE British American Tobacco has finalized its exit from Russia about 18 months after it pledged to do so in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The multinational cigarette maker said in a statement Thursday it agreed “to sell its Russian and Belarusian businesses in compliance with … 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

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

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

Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer steps down after more than 2 years in the role

Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer steps down after more than 2 years in the role

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Rosalind “Roz” Brewer Jason Redmond | Afp | Getty Images Walgreens Boots said Friday that Roz Brewer had stepped down as the company’s chief executive. She also left the company’s board, effective Thursday. The decision was mutual, according to a news release. Walgreens said it is … 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

Juul to cut 30% of its workforce in bid to cut costs and boost profitability

Juul to cut 30% of its workforce in bid to cut costs and boost profitability

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Juul Labs signage is seen in the window of a store in San Francisco, June 25, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Juul Labs said Wednesday it’s planning to cut about 30% of its workforce as it looks to cut costs and boost … Read more

Weight loss drugs boost sales at retail pharmacies, but they may not help profits much

Weight loss drugs boost sales at retail pharmacies, but they may not help profits much

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 Drugmakers aren’t the only ones feeling the impact of the weight … Read more

Here’s a rapid-fire update on all 36 stocks in the Club’s portfolio, including 2 recent buys

Here’s a rapid-fire update on all 36 stocks in the Club’s portfolio, including 2 recent buys

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE During the Investing Club’s August Monthly Meeting, Jim Cramer provided his latest thinking on all 36 names in his Charitable Trust. . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Source

Hawaii governor warns developers against predatory land buying in devastated Lahaina

Hawaii governor warns developers against predatory land buying in devastated Lahaina

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A general view shows damage in the fire ravaged town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii, U.S., August 15, 2023.  Mike Blake | Reuters Hawaii Gov. Josh Green is warning developers from the mainland United States and around the world not to buy … Read more

Appeals court imposes restrictions on abortion pill, but drug will stay on the market for now

Appeals court imposes restrictions on abortion pill, but drug will stay on the market for now

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 A federal appeals court on Wednesday imposed restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone, though the … Read more

Activists ease up on Salesforce — plus, 10 other Club stocks traded by Wall Street pros

Activists ease up on Salesforce — plus, 10 other Club stocks traded by Wall Street pros

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The extraordinary activist-investor interest in Salesforce (CRM) eased further in the second quarter, according to the latest regulatory filings from influential Wall Street pros. These big-name investors also made moves in nine other Club stocks during a strong three-month stretch that ended the best first half … Read more

Hawaii wildfires: Biden vows immediate aid, deploys military to assist victims

Hawaii wildfires: Biden vows immediate aid, deploys military to assist victims

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE An aerial view of a wildfire in Kihei, Maui County, Hawaii, U.S., August 8, 2023 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Clint Hansen Of Maui Real Estate | Via Reuters President Joe Biden on Thursday vowed immediate assistance for Maui residents who … Read more

These 10 medications are likely targets for Medicare price negotiations this fall

These 10 medications are likely targets for Medicare price negotiations this fall

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Merck & Co. Inc. Januvia brand medication, used to treat type2 diabetes, sit on a pharmacy shelf in Princeton, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Medicare is poised to directly negotiate drug prices with the pharmaceutical industry this fall for the first time in … Read more

Abortion rights keep winning on the ballot in conservative states — Florida and Arizona could be next

Abortion rights keep winning on the ballot in conservative states — Florida and Arizona could be next

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Organizers celebrate the defeat of Issue 1 during an election night party at the Columbus Fire Fighters Local 67 on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023 in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio voters have rejected a proposal that would’ve made it more difficult for voters to amend the state constitution, … Read more

We’re optimistic about this struggling entertainment stock despite an expected weak quarter

We’re optimistic about this struggling entertainment stock despite an expected weak quarter

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Wednesday’s key moments. Back-to-back losses Still believe in Disney Eli Lilly keeps going 1. Back-to-back losses U.S. stocks on Wednesday were sinking for the … Read more

Ohio voters flock to the polls with abortion rights at stake in GOP-backed rules change

Ohio voters flock to the polls with abortion rights at stake in GOP-backed rules change

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A sign asking Ohioans to vote in support of Issue 1 sits above another sign advocating against abortion rights at an event hosted by Created Equal on Thursday, July 20, 2023, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Patrick Orsagos | AP The people of Ohio on Tuesday are voting … Read more

Red Cross ends blood donation restrictions that singled out gay and bisexual men

Red Cross ends blood donation restrictions that singled out gay and bisexual men

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A worker with Vitalant places a needle on the arm of a blood donor as he prepares to donate blood during the Hoboken community Vitalant blood drive held at Hoboken Rec Center on June 25, 2021 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images … Read more

Infant RSV shot faces final hurdle at CDC, could be available by fall

Infant RSV shot faces final hurdle at CDC, could be available by fall

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 Americans may soon have access to a shot that protects babies from respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, the leading cause … Read more

FDA warns some Tydemy birth control pills may not be effective, could result in unexpected pregnancy

FDA warns some Tydemy birth control pills may not be effective, could result in unexpected pregnancy

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Signage is seen outside the U.S. Food and Drug Administration headquarters in White Oak, Maryland, Aug. 29, 2020. Andrew Kelly | Reuters The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned that some Tydemy birth control pills may not be effective, several days after the manufacturer recalled … Read more

CVS beats on earnings and revenue as the company slashes costs

CVS beats on earnings and revenue as the company slashes costs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A customer exits a CVS Health Corp. store in Oakland, California, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images CVS Health on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings and revenue that beat expectations, as the company slashes costs and lays off thousands of … Read more

Walgreens is now offering RSV vaccines for older adults

Walgreens is now offering RSV vaccines for older adults

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Respiratory syncytial virus viral vaccine under research. Hailshadow | Istock | Getty Images Walgreens is now offering the respiratory syncytial virus vaccine for older adults nationwide, the pharmacy chain said on Tuesday. People ages 60 and older can schedule an appointment this week through Walgreens’ app, … Read more

Biden administration wants to crack down on inadequate mental health insurance

Biden administration wants to crack down on inadequate mental health insurance

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A young woman sits on a couch with her therapist. Sdi Productions | E+ | Getty Images The Biden administration plans to crack down on health insurance plans that discriminate against people who need mental health care and substance abuse treatment. The proposed rule, announced Tuesday … 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

The Biden administration is urging employers to help keep people insured as millions lose Medicaid

The Biden administration is urging employers to help keep people insured as millions lose Medicaid

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 The Biden administration on … 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

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

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

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

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

The World Health Organization’s ruling on aspartame could hurt sales of diet sodas or lead to new drink formulas

The World Health Organization’s ruling on aspartame could hurt sales of diet sodas or lead to new drink formulas

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The World Health Organization reaffirmed its recommended intake for aspartame on Thursday, but the agency classified the sweetener as possibly carcinogenic it can still scare off diet soda drinkers and lead to new drink formulas. Soda consumption has declined over the past two decades as consumers … 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CEOs do matter when picking stocks. 5 things we look for in a leader and examples from our portfolio

CEOs do matter when picking stocks. 5 things we look for in a leader and examples from our portfolio

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE It’s not unusual for a company’s stock price to soar — or sink — on news of a CEO shakeup. When Mary Dillon, revered on Wall Street for her eight-year run at Ulta Beauty (ULTA), was named to the top job at Foot Locker (FL) last … 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

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

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

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

Petco is teaming up with Snoop Dogg for a new pet care campaign

Petco is teaming up with Snoop Dogg for a new pet care campaign

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Petco teams up with hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg for an innovative pet care campaign Courtesy: Petco Five has partnered with rap icon Snoop Dogg for a new pet care campaign, the company announced Wednesday. The collaboration includes Snoop’s Petco Picks, which includes toys, treats and grooming … 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alzheimer’s patients may wait years to get treated with new drugs, putting them at risk of more severe disease

Alzheimer’s patients may wait years to get treated with new drugs, putting them at risk of more severe disease

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Juanmonino | E+ | Getty Images Seniors with early Alzheimer’s disease will face major hurdles to get treated even if promising new drugs roll out more broadly in the coming years, putting them at risk of developing more severe disease as they wait months or perhaps … 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

Johnson & Johnson to price shares of consumer spinoff Kenvue at $20 to $23 in IPO

Johnson & Johnson to price shares of consumer spinoff Kenvue at  to  in IPO

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Johnson & Johnson products for sale in New York. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Johnson & Johnson will appreciate shares of its consumer health spinoff Kenvue from 20 to 23 dollars in First public offering later this year, the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday. … 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