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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is trailed by reporters as he arrives for the weekly Democratic caucus luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, November 29, 2022. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday urged Moderna not to quadruple the price of its Covid-19 vaccine once distribution of the shots moves to the

As Wall Street on Tuesday attempted to hold onto recent gains, we received positive updates on two Club holdings that are seeing outsized moves to the upside: Danaher (DHR) and Constellation Brands (STZ). DHR 1Y mountain Danaher’s 1 year stock performance Danaher is set to present at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference on Tuesday afternoon. However,

Passengers prepare to enter Shenzhen through the Lok Ma Chau Spur Line Control Point on the first day of the resumption of normal travel between Hong Kong and mainland China on Jan. 8, 2023, in Hong Kong. Li Zhihua | China News Service | Getty Images Mainland China’s move away from its zero-Covid policy has

Visoot Uthairam | Moment | Getty Images Few seniors with early Alzheimer’s disease will have access to the new treatment Leqembi due to its high cost and very limited coverage by Medicare. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted accelerated approval to Biogen and Eisai’s monoclonal antibody after the treatment appeared to modestly slow

LONDON, Jan. 6: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks to the media as he visits Harris Academy in Battersea. Henry Nicholls – WPA Pool/Getty Images LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is preparing to meet union leaders this week for what he hopes will be “constructive” talks as he seeks to halt nationwide industrial

Widespread medical debt is a uniquely American problem. Roughly 40% of U.S. adults have at least $250 in medical debt, according to a survey conducted by Kaiser Family Foundation. “The history of medical debt is basically a history of the changing answer to the following question: When the patient can’t pay the bill, who foots

A NHS vaccinator administers the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 booster jab to a woman, at a vaccination centre in London. BioNTech is launching a large-scale trial of mRNA therapies to treat cancer and other diseases in the U.K. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K. government on Friday announced a partnership with German

Seen from the window of an Amtrak train, smoke billows up from power plants alongside the tracks in Northern Virginia. Andrew Lichtenstein | Corbis Historical | Getty Images The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed a rule that would strengthen federal limits on industrial soot, one of the country’s most deadly air pollutants that

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday revised downward its estimate of how much the omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant is circulating across the U.S., though it continues to spread at a faster pace than other versions of Covid-19. XBB.1.5 made up 27.6% of sequenced Covid cases nationally for the week ending Jan. 7 compared

In this article BIIB 4523.T-JP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT MRI image of brain showing area of Alzheimer patient. Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted accelerated approval for the Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab, the second treatment from Biogen and its Japanese partner Eisai to receive an early green light in less

Subway passenger traffic in Shanghai is quickly returning to levels seen before the latest Covid wave, according to Wind data. Pictured here is a subway car in the city on Jan. 4, 2023. Hugo Hu | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — China will likely be able to live with Covid-19 by the

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster holds up a bill banning almost all abortions in the state after he signed it into law on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in Columbia, S.C. Jeffrey Collins | AP The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the state’s ban on abortion after around six weeks of pregnancy, ruling that

European nations are looking at new travel requirements from China after Beijing lifted Covid restrictions. China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images European nations on Wednesday recommended imposing new restrictions on travelers from China amid fears of an increase in Covid cases. Passengers departing from China will likely have to present a

XBB.1.5 strain, January 4, 2023, Suqian, Jiangsu, China. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images The XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant that’s currently dominating the U.S. is the most contagious version of Covid-19 yet, but it doesn’t appear to make people sicker, according to the World Health Organization. Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead, said

We’re buying 10 shares of Humana (HUM) at roughly $492 apiece. Following Tuesday’s trade, Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust will own 110 shares of HUM, increasing its weighting in the portfolio to 1.96% from 1.78%. We are putting some of our approximately 10% cash position to work Tuesday afternoon, looking for buying opportunities in stocks of

Asylum seeking migrants from Central America sit next to a vehicle that was stopped by police after crossing the Rio Grande into Eagle Pass, Texas from Mexico along U.S. Route 90, in Hondo, Texas, U.S., June 1, 2022.  Shannon Stapleton | Reuters A Supreme Court decision will keep in place for now a controversial Trump-era

For more than two years, overseas travelers have had to quarantine upon arrival in China because of Covid restrictions. Pictured here at Beijing International Airport on June 18, 2022, are passengers waiting to be taken to quarantine-designated destinations. Leo Ramirez | Afp | Getty Images The U.S. government is considering imposing new Covid rules for

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon Web Services logo at the Web Summit in Lisbon. Henrique Casinhas | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images As health care becomes increasingly digitized, scientists, doctors and researchers have to try and decipher unprecedented amounts of data to adequately personalize care. The excess

Gilnature | Istock | Getty Images The Covid omicron XBB.1.5 variant is rapidly becoming dominant in the U.S. because it is highly immune evasive and appears more effective at binding to cells than related subvariants, scientists say. XBB.1.5 now represents about 41% of new cases nationwide in the U.S., nearly doubling in prevalence over the

U.S. and global health leaders say Beijing is not sharing enough information about the spread of Covid-19 in China, leaving the international community in the dark about the scale and severity of the current wave of infection in the world’s most populous country. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a statement Wednesday,