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In this article ILMN IEP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Carl Icahn speaking at Delivering Alpha in New York on Sept. 13, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Carl Icahn on Friday called Illumina’s first-quarter results “very disappointing” and slammed the DNA sequencing company’s new plans to cut costs.  The activist investor, who owns

In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The abortion pill mifepristone is either banned or restricted to varying degrees in 27 states despite a Supreme Court decision that — for now — maintains Food and

Activists for transgender rights gather in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 1, 2023. Andrew Caballero-reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The Department of Justice is suing Tennessee for allegedly discriminating against transgender youth with a new state law banning the use of puberty blockers, hormones, and other medical procedures

Medical bottles and syringe are seen with 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 Lilly‘s first-quarter earnings missed expectations Thursday, but the pharmaceutical company raised its full-year guidance. Before the

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure testifies before the Senate Finance Committee during her nomination hearing to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in Washington on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Caroline Brehman | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Medicare will cover the new Alzheimer’s treatment Leqembi for all patients eligible under the medication’s label

In this article LLY BIIB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A person skateboards past Biogen Inc. headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Monday, June 7, 2021. Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Biogen isn’t worried about competing with Eli Lilly as they both attempt to bring an Alzheimer’s drug to the market, Biogen’s CEO

In this article ILMN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A building on the campus at the world headquarters of Illumina is shown in San Diego, California, September 1, 2021. Mike Blake | Reuters Illumina on Tuesday unveiled plans to cut costs in a bid to improve the DNA sequencing company’s shrinking margins. The plans

In this article JNJ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Johnson & Johnson logo SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson‘s consumer health business is valued at $40 billion ahead of its initial public offering later this year, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.  The soon-to-be spinoff Kenvue aims

In this article JNJ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Johnson & Johnson products for sale in New York. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Johnson & Johnson will price shares of its consumer health spinoff Kenvue at $20 to $23 in an initial public offering later this year, the company said in a regulatory filing Monday.

In this article IBM MRNA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Moderna and IBM are teaming up to use generative artificial intelligence and quantum computing to advance mRNA technology, the development at the core of the company’s blockbuster Covid vaccine, the companies announced Thursday.  “We are excited to

A health-care worker fills out a Covid-19 Vaccination Record Card in the Bronx borough of New York. Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty Images Eighteen people, some of them doctors, were criminally charged with Covid-19 health-care fraud schemes that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from false billings and theft from federally-funded programs, the Department

In this article SAN-FR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, insulin pens manufactured by the Novo Nordisk company are displayed on March 14, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Bipartisan Senate legislation introduced Friday would cap the price of insulin at $35 per month for people with private

HIMSS conference attendees walk the exhibition floor Source: HIMSS Debates over artificial intelligence and its role in health care took center stage at the HIMSS Global Health Conference in Chicago this week, where more than 35,000 physicians, executives, engineers and health-care workers convened to discuss the latest advancements in health and technology.  Companies like Microsoft,

In this article NOVO.B-DK SAN-FR LLY CVS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, an insulin pen manufactured by the Novo Nordisk company is displayed on March 14, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images The top executives of the three drug companies that control 90%

Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, April 15, 2023.  Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the abortion pill mifepristone to remain broadly available as litigation plays out in a lower court. The high court’s decision Friday came in response

Close-up of a yellow-fever mosquito biting human skin, it’s a culicidae vector of malaria, yellow fever, chikungunya, dengue and zika virus in Brazil, known locally as mosquito da dengue. Joao Paulo Burini | Moment | Getty Images Nigeria this week joined Ghana in provisionally approving a new malaria vaccine developed by scientists at the University

In this article JNJ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, a container of Johnson and Johnson baby powder is displayed on April 05, 2023 in San Anselmo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday halted roughly 40,000 lawsuits that allege Johnson & Johnson‘s baby powder and

A box containing a Mifepristone tablet is seen at Blue Mountain Clinic in Missoula, Montana, U.S. February 28, 2023. REUTERS/Callaghan O’Hare Callaghan O’hare | Reuters A pharmaceutical company that distributes the majority of the U.S. supply of the abortion pill mifepristone sued the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday in an effort to keep its

Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, April 15, 2023.  Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday issued an order allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to remain on the market without restrictions until at least Friday. Alito’s decision punts a

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) before-the-bell Tuesday reported a strong first quarter, with sales up more than 5.5% and earnings eking out an annual increase. Shares of the Dow component and Club holding should not be losing 2.5% on these kinds of results. J & J’s first-quarter sales of $24.75 billion exceeded the Refinitv consensus estimate