CVS Health (CVS) earnings Q2 2024
The CVS pharmacy logo is displayed on a sign above a CVS Health Corp. store in Las Vegas, Nevada on Feb. 7, 2024.Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty ImagesCVS...
Nurturing hope and leadership among Gaza’s young people
A volunteer with Sharek Youth Forum, a local non-governmental organization (NGO) in war-torn Gaza, Ms. Al Shamali has currently been displaced for the ninth time and lives in a crowded...
Novo Nordisk Q2 2024 results
Novo Nordisk Wegovy manufactured by Novo Nordisk packaging is seen in this illustration photo taken in a pharmacy in Krakow, Poland on April 8, 2024. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via...
Drugmakers on new negotiated prices with Medicare
President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, Dec. 14, 2023.Chris Kleponis | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThink a friend or colleague should...
COVID-19 making worrying comeback WHO warns, amid summertime surge
COVID-19 infections are surging worldwide - including at the Olympics - and are unlikely to decline anytime soon, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday.
Criminal networks are shifting from fentanyl imports to Canadian-made product
Organized crime groups have shifted their efforts away from importing the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl and are now producing it primarily on Canadian soil.A briefing note prepared for the deputy minister...
Gaza: ‘Frightening increase’ in Hepatitis A cases
“People in Gaza are facing yet another peril: Hepatitis A is spreading including among children,” Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, wrote on social...
Rural communities boost incentives to attract medical staff
As small communities across Ontario struggle to recruit doctors and nurses, one town has landed on a strategy that appears poised for success: giving them "a bag of money up...
Is this a ‘morning-after pill’ for STIs?
Recent studies show that a common antibiotic could reduce the risk of getting syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea in some high-risk people. It’s part of a preventive strategy called DoxyPEP. But...
Eli Lilly Zepbound, Mounjaro available after shortages, FDA says
An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City, Dec. 11, 2023.Brendan McDermid | ReutersAll doses of Eli Lilly's highly popular weight loss...