Tag Archives: Social issues

[ad_1] UnitedHealth Group’s first-quarter earnings report Tuesday will mark the health-care giant’s first major public comments since a cyberattack on its Change Healthcare billing and payments subsidiary in February, which has led to the largest disruption in U.S. health care since the Covid pandemic. “Everybody looks to United as the …

[ad_1] Boxes of Wegovy made by Novo Nordisk are seen at a pharmacy in London, Britain March 8, 2024.  Hollie Adams | Reuters European Union drug regulators found no evidence that highly popular weight loss and diabetes drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic are linked to an increased risk of …

[ad_1] Housing rights activists and tenants protest against evictions and the poor condition of their apartments outside the offices the landlord Broadway Capital in Chelsea, Massachusetts on April 25, 2022. Brian Snyder | Reuters For many years, Conemaugh Health System, a hospital chain in west central Pennsylvania, was a nonprofit …

[ad_1] In this photo illustration, a package of Opill is displayed on March 22, 2024 in San Anselmo, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images CVS Health on Thursday said its drug plans will cover the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the U.S. at no cost for many health plan …

[ad_1] Shares of U.S. health insurers fell Tuesday after the Biden administration didn’t boost payments for private Medicare plans as much as the insurance industry and investors had hoped.  Shares of CVS Health fell more than 8% on Tuesday, while UnitedHealth Group‘s stock slid nearly 7%. Shares of Elevance Health …

[ad_1] Demonstrators gather in front of the Supreme Court as the court hears oral arguments in the case of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on March 26, 2024 in Washington, DC.  Anna Rose Layden | Getty Images News | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The Supreme …

[ad_1] Pedestrians walk in front of the U.S. Supreme Court February 29, 2024 in Washington, DC. Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Tuesday tackles whether to maintain widely available access to the abortion pill mifepristone as it weighs a high-stakes challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s drug approval …

[ad_1] Boxes of Wegovy made by Novo Nordisk are seen at a pharmacy in London, Britain March 8, 2024.  Hollie Adams | Reuters Demand for weight loss drugs is booming in the U.S. despite their limited insurance coverage and roughly $1,000 monthly price tags before discounts.  But some patients are …

[ad_1] Terry Vine | Getty Images Falling fertility rates are set to spark a transformational demographic shift over the next 25 years, with major implications for the global economy, according to a new study. By 2050, three-quarters of countries are forecast to fall below the population replacement birth rate of …

[ad_1] Boxes of Wegovy made by Novo Nordisk are seen at a pharmacy in London, Britain March 8, 2024.  Hollie Adams | Reuters Medicare can start covering certain weight loss drugs for the first time — as long as they are approved for an added health benefit, the Centers for …