Health, Fitness & Food

Brad Little, Governor of Idaho speaks on the 2nd day of the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) Washington, DC conference at Gaylord National Harbor Resort & Convention. Lev Radin | Lightrocket | Getty Images Republican Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed a bill into law that bans adults from helping minors cross state lines to

In this article BIIB 4523.T-JP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Research at Biogen Source: Biogen Alzheimer’s patients who take Leqembi retain the benefits of the treatment even when they stop taking it, new research by Eisai shows.  The Japanese drugmaker and its partner Biogen last week released an additional analysis of clinical trials of the monoclonal antibody drug, which is also known

A health worker prepares a flu vaccine shot before administering it to a local resident in Los Angeles, the United States, on Dec. 17, 2022. Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images People who receive Pfizer‘s RSV vaccine for older adults should be monitored for Guillain-Barre syndrome, after two people developed the nervous system disorder after

Michael Regan, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), speaks during an event at the EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said it will strengthen limits on several toxic air pollutants emitted by power plants, including mercury, a

In this article ILMN IEP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Carl Icahn, chairman of Icahn Enterprises Holdings Scott Eelis | Bloomberg | Getty Images Carl Icahn on Wednesday said Illumina‘s efforts to appeal a Federal Trade Commission order to divest the highly contested Grail acquisition “is an almost impossible battle.”  Illumina on Monday told

In this article JNJ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Containers of Johnson’s baby powder made by Johnson and Johnson are displayed on a shelf on July 13, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday said it will pay $8.9 billion over the next 25 years to

In this article ILMN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Francis deSouza, chief executive officer of Illumina Inc., during a panel session on day three of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission on Monday ordered Illumina to

In this article EBS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Fentanyl forum attendees could visit a table where Narcan kits were being offered free at Northwood High School in Silver Spring, Maryland on February 25, 2023. Michael S. Williamson | The Washington Post | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved sales

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 Wednesday said Illumina should bring back its former CEO “immediately,” his latest move in a brewing proxy fight with the biotech company.   Icahn

A Johnson & Johnson building is shown in Irvine, California. Mike Blake | Reuters Johnson & Johnson on Wednesday said it’s ducking out of the RSV vaccine race, weeks after competitors Pfizer and GSK inched closer to launching the world’s first shot against the deadly virus.  J&J will stop working on its investigational RSV adult

In this article IEP ILMN 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 blasted Illumina for nearly doubling its CEO’s pay last year despite a dramatic drop in the biotech company’s market value since closing a controversial

Hundreds of 1199SEIU health care workers staged a rally and sit to block 3rd avenue where some were arrested. They protested against health care cuts in Governor Kathy Hochuls budget on Medicare. Lev Radin | Lightrocket | Getty Images U.S. states on Saturday will start to kick as many as 15 million people off Medicaid

Members of the media ask questions to U.S. President Joe Biden as he walks to the Marine One helicopter to depart for travel to Mississippi to view tornado damage, from the White House in Washington, U.S., March 31, 2023.  Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Biden administration on Friday appealed a Texas federal judge’s decision to

In this article ILMN IEP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Illumina on Thursday urged shareholders to reject Carl Icahn’s three board nominees at this year’s annual meeting, saying they would “threaten the progress” of the biotech company’s core business.  “Carl Icahn’s involvement with Illumina risks the long-term

A consultant analyzing a mammogram. Rui Vieira | PA Wire | Getty Images A federal judge on Thursday struck down an Obamacare mandate that required most private health insurance plans to cover preventive care such as certain cancer screenings and HIV prevention drugs. These services included screenings for breast, cervical and lung cancers; tests for

In this article NOVO.B-DK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT This photograph taken on February 23, 2023, in Paris, shows the anti-diabetic medication “Ozempic” (semaglutide) made by Danish pharmaceutical company “Novo Nordisk”. Joel Saget | AFP | Getty Images Patients taking blockbuster obesity drugs Ozempic or Wegovy will pack the pounds back on after they

Used boxes of Mifepristone pills, the first drug used in a medical abortion, fill a trash at Alamo Women’s Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., January 11, 2023.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Two federal judges are poised to issue rulings soon in dueling cases that could dramatically impact access to the abortion pill mifepristone. In

Cassie Jupin grew up wanting to be a nurse. She set her sights on a job at St. Peter’s Health Partners hospital in Albany, New York, and landed a position in the same maternity ward where she was born. “Knowing that I can come back to work every single day and work with a group

Frank Yiannas, former deputy commissioner of the office of food policy and response at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), speaks during a House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Ting Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. supply of infant formula industry is still vulnerable to

Vials containing the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are displayed before being used at a mobile vaccine clinic, in Valparaiso, Chile, January 3, 2022. Rodrigo Garrido | Reuters Shares of BioNTech on Monday slid by more than 6% in morning trading after the German drugmaker shared a gloomy 2023 sales outlook for its