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Healthy Returns: The newest treatment use for weight loss drugs? Liver disease
Image of a healthy liver not ravaged by fatty liver disease. BSIP | Getty Images Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up. Good afternoon! Drugmakers aren’t just racing to develop drugs that treat obesity. They’re also competing to expand the uses of those weight loss treatments, including […]
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Viking Therapeutics stock jumps 80% after positive weight loss drug trial results
Cr | Istock | Getty Images Shares of Viking Therapeutics soared more than 80% in premarket trading Tuesday after the company’s experimental weight loss drug showed promising initial results in a mid-stage trial. Viking Therapeutics is one of several small obesity drugmakers hoping to enter the budding weight loss drug industry, which analysts say could […]
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The 11 GRANOLAS stocks power Europe to record highs, drawing Magnificent Seven comparisons
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 record-high close on Friday. Earlier this month, Goldman Sachs […]
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Highmark Health says it's combining tech from Google and Epic to give doctors easier access to information
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian speaks at the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco, April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Highmark Health announced Monday that it’s integrating technology from Google Cloud and the health-care software company Epic Systems to try to improve data gathering for providers and payers. Consumer health-care […]
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Samsung debuts a 'smart ring' with health-tracking features — its first foray into the product category
The Samsung Galaxy Ring has various sensors to track things like heart rate. Samsung BARCELONA — Samsung’s Galaxy Ring, its latest wearable, is launching with health-tracking features including heart rate and sleep monitoring while also giving users a score of their readiness for the day, a top executive told CNBC. In a wide-ranging interview, Hon […]
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UnitedHealth subsidiary Change Healthcare down for a fourth day following cyberattack
UnitedHealth Group Inc. headquarters stands in Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S. Mike Bradley | Bloomberg | Getty Images Change Healthcare’s systems are down for a fourth straight day after parent company UnitedHealth Group disclosed that a suspected cybersecurity threat actor gained access to part of its information technology network on Wednesday. UnitedHealth, the biggest health-care company in […]
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Novavax to settle dispute over canceled Covid vaccine purchase agreement
A health worker prepares a dose of the Novavax vaccine as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. Patrick Van Katwijk | Getty Images Novavax on Thursday said it will settle a bitter arbitration dispute with Gavi, a nongovernmental global vaccine organization, over a […]
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Jim Cramer says buy this data center equipment firm despite its weak guidance
Vertiv Holdings : The data center equipment maker, whose shares have roughly quadrupled over the past year, issued guidance that didn’t live up to Wall Street’s lofty expectations. However, the stock is now trading well off its lows of the morning. “Data center still strong. Buy,” Jim Cramer said. Teladoc Health : Shares tumbled 24% […]
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Nearly all doctors feel burnout, but many are encouraged by potential of AI, survey says
Suriyapong Thongsawang | Moment | Getty Images Doctors in the U.S. are struggling to contend with burnout, staffing shortages and overwhelming administrative workloads, but many are optimistic that artificial intelligence could help to ease these problems, a new survey found. More than 90% of physicians report feeling burned out on a “regular basis,” according to […]
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Healthy Returns: The launch of breakthrough Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi is off to a slow start
Good afternoon! The launch of the closely watched Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi is off to a slow start. Still, demand for the treatment from Biogen and its Japanese partner Eisai is rising. That’s the update the two drugmakers gave Wall Street during their latest quarterly earnings calls earlier this month. But before we get into the numbers, […]
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