Health & Nutrition

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Omicron's 'stealth' subvariant BA.2 could go 'wild' in Europe before going global, top epidemiologist says

Omicron's 'stealth' subvariant BA.2 could go 'wild' in...

The rise in cases across the continent is being driven by several causes including...

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AstraZeneca takes stake in a start-up that helps doctors conduct clinical trials virtually

AstraZeneca takes stake in a start-up that helps doctors...

AstraZeneca has taken a roughly £25 million ($33 million) stake in U.K. health start-up...

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Maverick Ventures’ Ambar Bhattacharyya on the future of health care

Maverick Ventures’ Ambar Bhattacharyya on the future of...

Venture capitalist Ambar Bhattacharyya on digital health investment trends and predictions...

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Pfizer to supply 4 million Covid antiviral treatments to poorer nations through UNICEF

Pfizer to supply 4 million Covid antiviral treatments to...

Pfizer expects to start supplying the antiviral pills, Paxlovid, to UNICEF beginning...

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FDA advisory committee to discuss future of Covid boosters

FDA advisory committee to discuss future of Covid boosters

An FDA advisory committee will discuss Covid-19 boosters for the coming months and...

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Health experts predict uptick in U.S. Covid cases due to new BA.2 variant

Health experts predict uptick in U.S. Covid cases due to...

Officials say the new BA.2 Covid variant is about 50% to 60% more transmissible...

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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla received $24.3 million in total compensation for 2021

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla received $24.3 million in total...

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla received $24.3 million in total compensation for 2021,...

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Investing Club: We're trimming one of our big winners with the S&P 500 on a four-day win streak

Investing Club: We're trimming one of our big winners with...

We see now as a pretty good level in the overall market to start raising some cash.

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UK Covid cases are back on the rise as government scraps travel restrictions

UK Covid cases are back on the rise as government scraps...

U.K. Covid-19 cases are rising once again, according to the latest figures from...

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Merck's Keytruda reduced risk of disease recurrence or death in early lung cancer patients by 24%

Merck's Keytruda reduced risk of disease recurrence or...

Merck plans to submit the data on early stage lung cancer to the FDA as soon as...

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Biden names Dr. Ashish Jha new Covid response coordinator to succeed Jeff Zients

Biden names Dr. Ashish Jha new Covid response coordinator...

Jha leads Brown University's School of Public Health and previously headed Harvard's...

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Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has sold more than $400 million of company stock during the pandemic

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has sold more than $400 million...

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has sold more than 2.8 million shares since January...

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White House says U.S. will run out of money to fight pandemic if Congress doesn't pass Covid funding bill

White House says U.S. will run out of money to fight pandemic...

The White House is urging Congress to pass $22.5 billion in Covid spending, warning...

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Vaccine inequity will cost the world trillions of dollars, WHO Foundation warns

Vaccine inequity will cost the world trillions of dollars,...

The CEO of the WHO Foundation told CNBC that the global economy will lose "trillions...

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Theranos saga returns to courtroom as Holmes' top deputy Balwani set for criminal trial

Theranos saga returns to courtroom as Holmes' top deputy...

Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, Elizabeth Holmes' ex-boyfriend and business partner, is...

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Vaccine maker stocks rise as China battles worst Covid outbreak since 2020

Vaccine maker stocks rise as China battles worst Covid...

Shares of Moderna, BioNTech, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax rose on Monday...