CVS Health is in advanced talks to acquire the home-healthcare company Signify Health for around $8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. CVS appears to have beat out other heavy hitt...
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3M Should Be Blocked From Health Care Spinoff, Suit Argues
(Bloomberg) — 3M Co. should be blocked from spinning off its health care business and paying shareholder dividends in order to preserve money that soldiers suing the industrial conglomerate expe...
Celebrity Medicare Sales Pitches Are Toned Down After Scrutiny
If it’s football season, you can count on seeing Joe Namath on television, along with William Shatner and Jimmie “J J” Walker. They are the most prominent pitchmen for what has become an annual fall s...
U.S. health officials brace for another fall Covid surge, but with fewer deaths
People walk past a COVID-19 walk up testing site on July 28, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News Service | Getty Images Fall is on the horizon and public health officials are again bracing fo...
CVS Health is a buy
Canoo: “Profits. That would really go a long way [in making the stock a better investment right now].” Apa Corporation: “I like Apache. I think it’s got a lot of natural gas. [...
Can Blockchain Curb the Growing Health Crisis?
The world is in a state of medical turmoil. The population is amid an ongoing pandemic, navigating through yet another dangerous disease, global obesity forecasts have reached astronomical highs, and ...
Skipped Health Care Visits May Have Caused More Than 100,000 Maternal And Child Deaths In Vulnerable Countries During Pandemic, Study Finds
Topline The Covid-19 pandemic may have fueled higher levels of maternal and child mortality in more than a dozen of the world’s poorest countries by causing women and children to skip health care visi...
Monkeypox Cases In Europe May Have Peaked, World Health Organization Says
Topline Europe’s monkeypox outbreak appears to have peaked, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, urging all countries to intensify efforts to curb transmission and push to eliminate the viru...
Where Amazon is heading in health after the Amazon Care failure
In this photo illustration, the Amazon Basic Care logo is displayed on a smartphone with an Amazon logo in the background. Thiago Prudêncio | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Chalk up another ...
Struggling with long Covid? Here’s what you should and should not eat
Fatigue, brain fog, heart palpitations and breathing difficulties. Those are just some of the common symptoms of “long Covid” that can affect people in the long term after recovery from i...
How much do I need to retire? 11 big retirement questions answered
I spend a significant amount of time reading the viewpoints of people who are planning for retirement or who are already retired. My frequent reaction: What are they thinking? When I review retiremen...
I’m 62, single and never had a retirement account. I have $100,000 to invest, but is it too late?
I am a 62 year-old single man and have never had a retirement account. I do own both my home and a rental property which are paid for and I have no other debt. I have $100,000 in savings which I would...
Shrinking the Fed’s balance sheet sheet is not likely to be a benign process, new Jackson Hole study warns
“If the past repeats, the shrinking of the central bank’s balance sheet is not likely to be an entirely benign process and will require careful monitoring of the banking sector’s on-and off-balance sh...
Stocks At New Highs: Hydrogen Energy And Health Hit Buy Points
Few stocks hit 52-week highs amid a big market sell-off to end the week. Two stocks at new highs are industry leaders, allowing their stocks to rise with them. X CF Industries (CF) broke out of a cup ...
Indian health advisory for rare virus infecting children
Tomato flu — so called due to the painful red blisters it produces — has so far been detected in more than 100 children across three states since the first case was reported on May 6. Hindustan Times ...
USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative Launches New Focus On Reproductive Health And Political Storytelling Onscreen
In “Shrill,” Annie (Aidy Bryant) has an abortion after discovering her contraceptive pill is … [+] ineffective. Allyson Riggs/Hulu When “Fast Times At Ridgemont High” first hit big s...
Six things that could change your mind about retiring early
Robert Johnson, a professor of finance at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business, retired from a career in financial education in 2018 but recognized that he wasn’t comfortable spending his...
AMC, Signify Health, Netflix and more
Netflix is expanding its push into mobile gaming. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday Monday: AMC — Shares of the theater chain dropped nea...
Signify Health shoots up 40% on Amazon news
Shares of Signify Health Inc (NYSE: SGFY) are up nearly 40% this morning on reports that Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) wants to buy the home health services provider. Amazon has the second-highest bid...
Signify Health Stock Surges As Amazon Reportedly Joins Potential Bidding War With CVS, UnitedHealth
Topline Shares of Signify Health skyrocketed Monday after the Wall Street Journal reported e-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly looking into acquiring the at-home health services provider, joining a ...
9 ways the Inflation Reduction Act affects Medicare coverage, and what it means for you
Major changes to prescription drug affordability for more than 50 million beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Part D are likely on the way because of a new law. The Inflation Reduction Act “finally del...
Signify Health, Bed Bath & Beyond, AMC and more
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Signify Health (SGFY) – Signify Health surged 37.5% in premarket trading as a potential bidding war escalates for the home health services p...
Amazon Among Bidders for Signify Health
Amazon.com Inc. is among the bidders for healthcare company Signify Health Inc., joining other heavy hitters vying in an auction for the home-health services provider, according to people familiar wit...
Having a Long-Term Care Plan Is Crucial. Here, 2 Hybrid Policy Types to Consider
For millions of baby boomers, Gen-Xers, and millennials who have no long-term care strategy, the pandemic has sent a message: Act now or it will cost you later. It’s a sobering task no matter your fi...
U.S. Companies on Pace to Bring Home Record Number of Overseas Jobs
U.S. companies are bringing workforces and supply chains home at a historic pace. American companies are on pace to reshore, or return to the U.S., nearly 350,000 jobs this year, according to a report...
This Unpopular Move Could Save Invitae
It’s been an eventful 30 days for Invitae (NVTA) . That might be an understatement. The genetic testing pioneer announced a major strategic pivot July 18. The business replaced its CEO, laid of...
California Health Officials Now Referring To Monkeypox As ‘Mpox’ And ‘MPX’ As Calls Mount To Rename Disease
Topline Health officials in California said Friday they will refer to monkeypox as “mpox” or “MPX,” a local TV station reported, amid criticism that the name is stigmatizing and discriminatory. Public...
Only 5 S&P 500 stocks ended higher after Powell’s sobering Jackson Hole speech
It took only a 10-minute speech from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday to clarify that monetary policy would be relentlessly tightened in the months ahead. Investors dumped stocks, send...