GSK on Friday put out a statement saying there’s no link between a withdrawn heartburn medication and cancer, helping to stem a slide in its stock that has wiped out Read more
Tag: Healthcare
Want a big signing bonus? Walgreens is offering $75,000 to recruit pharmacists
Are you interested in a signing bonus the size of a salary? If you are a pharmacist, this could be your opportunity. Walgreens WBA, +0.43% is offering new pharmacist employees Read more
Johnson & Johnson to discontinue talc-based baby powder in 2023
Johnson & Johnson JNJ, -2.07% said Thursday its talc-based baby powder will be discontinued globally in 2023. The healthcare-products company said it will transition to an all cornstarch-based baby powder Read more
Pet-food maker Better Choice raises doubts about its financial future
Pet-food maker Better Choice Co. BTTR, +6.06% says there is doubt about its long-term ability to continue as a going concern in light of losses and financial covenants requiring it Read more
Illumina stock tanks as gene-sequencing company misses expectations and issues bleak outlook
Illumina Inc. shares sank more than 22% after hours Thursday after the gene-sequencing company swung to a loss in the second quarter, fell short of revenue expectations and revised its Read more
Opinion: The FDA should ban imports of unsafe generic drugs now
More than 131 million Americans take prescription drugs each day. And almost all of these prescriptions are filled with generic medications at local pharmacies. What’s deeply concerning is that the nation’s largest supplier of Read more
Opinion: Scary ads claiming Medicare is being stripped by $300 billion are playing you
If you’re among the hundreds of thousands—possibly more—who have seen one of these commercials about Medicare and the latest bill in Congress, I’ve got some bad news, some good news, Read more
Opinion: Sensible stock investors put their money on a company’s real profits — not Wall Street’s false prophets
How many times have you heard, “If you had invested in Microsoft at the beginning…” If you had invested in Google at the beginning…” If, if, if. If you invest Read more
California man charged with naming phony film studio Desilu after famed ‘I Love Lucy’ production company to swindle investors
It was nothing to sneeze at. A man who co-created the cold remedy, Zicam, has been charged with running a phony movie business called Desilu Studios after the famed production Read more
Here’s how private equity got relief in Democrats’ healthcare, climate and tax package that’s heading for a House vote
The bipartisan duo of Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and John Thune helped private equity firms escape tens of billions of dollars in potential tax increases and instead walk away with relief Read more