Category: Health

  • UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty addresses Brian Thompson demise

    UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty addresses Brian Thompson demise

    Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, testifies during the Senate Finance Committee hearing titled “Hacking America’s Health Care: Assessing the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack and What’s Next,” in the Dirksen Building in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 2024. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty on Friday mourned…

  • Weight-loss drug increase has grow to be one of many web’s largest scams

    Weight-loss drug increase has grow to be one of many web’s largest scams

    A production line of Wegovy injection pens for the Asian market at the Novo Nordisk A/S pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Hillerod, Denmark, on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images One interpretation of the law of supply and demand is that when demand outstrips supply, scammers get busy. That’s certainly the case…

  • CDC says McDonald’s E. coli outbreak is over 

    CDC says McDonald’s E. coli outbreak is over 

    In this photo illustration, a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburger meal is seen at a McDonald’s on October 23, 2024 in the Flatbush neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.  Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday said the deadly E. coli outbreak linked to slivered…

  • Amgen says weight problems drug MariTide brought on as much as 20% weight reduction after a 12 months

    Amgen says weight problems drug MariTide brought on as much as 20% weight reduction after a 12 months

    The Amgen logo is displayed outside Amgen headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California, on May 17, 2023. Mario Tama | Getty Images Amgen on Tuesday said its experimental weight loss injection helped patients with obesity lose up to 20% of their weight on average after a year in a critical mid-stage trial, as the company races…

  • How Trump’s win might change your well being care

    How Trump’s win might change your well being care

    U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives on November 13, 2024 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.  Andrew Harnik | Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House is poised to have big impacts on consumer health care. Republicans may face few legislative roadblocks with their goals of reshaping health insurance in the U.S., experts said,…

  • RFK Jr. is Trump choose for HHS secretary. This is what he may do

    RFK Jr. is Trump choose for HHS secretary. This is what he may do

    Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes an announcement on the future of his campaign in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. August 23, 2024.  Thomas Machowicz | Reuters President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services – a selection that is raising fears in the public…

  • Trump picks RFK Jr. for Well being and Human Companies secretary

    Trump picks RFK Jr. for Well being and Human Companies secretary

    President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that he will nominate vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department. If the Senate approves Kennedy, the former independent presidential candidate will lead a sprawling department responsible for the huge Medicare and Medicaid health coverage programs, the Food and…

  • Weight reduction drug race heats up with weight problems capsule knowledge

    Weight reduction drug race heats up with weight problems capsule knowledge

    Aykut Karahan | Istock | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. Happy Friday! Buried in the election news this week was new data from drugmakers vying to enter the booming weight…

  • What Trump’s well being decide RFK Jr. might imply for sufferers, drugmakers

    What Trump’s well being decide RFK Jr. might imply for sufferers, drugmakers

    Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the stage at a Turning Point Action campaign rally at the Gas South Arena on October 23, 2024 in Duluth, Georgia.  Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images News | Getty Images Donald Trump has made one clear promise about who could help…

  • Wegovy could scale back knee ache in sufferers with osteoarthritis, weight problems

    Wegovy could scale back knee ache in sufferers with osteoarthritis, weight problems

    The “Wegovy” brand slimming syringe is sold in the Achat pharmacy in Mitte. The “Wegovy” slimming syringe has been available in Germany for a year. Jens Kalaene | Picture Alliance | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox.…