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Health Care Roundup: Market Talk
The latest Market Talks covering the Health Care sector. Published exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET. 0722 GMT – Roche Holding's positive results in a lung cancer trial give the Swiss drugmaker a small win…
GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. stock rises Thursday, outperforms market
Shares of GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. GEHC advanced 1.09% to $65.57 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX remaining mostly unchanged at 7,483.24 and the Dow Jones…
Why Healthcare Benefits Have Become A Retention Strategy
Jennifer Schaefer is Founder & CEO of JS Benefits Group, focused on employee benefits, HR consulting, leadership and workforce strategy. For most of my career, CEOs asked me the same question about healthcare. How do we cut the spend? That question…
Molina Healthcare Inc. stock outperforms competitors despite losses on the day
Shares of Molina Healthcare Inc. MOH shed 1.15% to $229.87 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX remaining mostly unchanged at 7,483.24 and the Dow Jones Industrial…
SPDR Health Care ETF Tops iShares Biotech in Long-Term Returns
Investors seeking broad, low-cost healthcare exposure may prefer State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLV +0.56%), while iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB 0.10%) caters to those specifically targeting the high-growth biotechnology…
From lifelike hands to gamified nudges, how technology is reshaping the future of healthcare
Whether designing a pair of robot pants or a prosthetic limb or a healthcare app, it's important that people feel they're getting a personalized upgrade—not just a solution. Consider prosthetic limbs. While this century has seen huge…
HCA Healthcare Inc. stock underperforms Thursday when compared to competitors despite daily gains
Shares of HCA Healthcare Inc. HCA rallied 4.39% to $410.50 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX remaining mostly unchanged at 7,483.24 and the Dow Jones Industrial…
Opinion: The Canadians who emigrate to get U.S. health care
Every July 1, we surrender to the anesthesia of rituals: a stylized maple-leaf exceptionalism, a collective sigh of relief that our society has escaped the perceived vulgarities of the American experiment, and a nod to a social safety net…
Breaking Down Silos: Interprofessional Collaboration Remains Healthcare's Greatest Challenge
A patient on a hospital unit receives conflicting instructions from three different professionals: the physician wants the patient mobilized immediately, the physical therapist thinks waiting another day is safer, and the nurse is managing pain…
Jewish Health Equality Partnership formed to address healthcare discrimination
The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the London Jewish Forum have launched a new five-year £1.5 million project funded by the National Lottery Community Fund to address structural antisemitism and inequalities in the health sector that…
Healthcare surged in June. Raymond James is adding these two dividend payers to list of top picks
The healthcare sector, usually a sleepy corner of the market, rallied in June – and Raymond James added two rising stars to its list of top picks in the sector. The tech trade hit a rocky patch last month, with the group sliding 3% as…
Machine learning boosts medicine access in resource-limited healthcare settings
Managing a medical supply chain in low- and middle-income countries can mean navigating a landscape prone to extreme and unexpected disruptions. In Sierra Leone, for instance, external forces ranging from an attempted military coup and an…
Once a source of national pride, Cuba's healthcare system declines as energy shortages deepen crisis
After two surgeries and several rounds of radiation therapy over the past four years to treat a tumor, Irisleydis Tristá has spent the past seven months unable to get a CT scan to determine whether the cancer has grown or spread. The CT…
Smart Rings In Healthcare: Oura Ring Heart Disease Trial
Jersey Hospital in the United Kingdom is conducting a new clinical trial that utilizes the Oura Ring 4 to track patient heart rates and assist in detecting Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF). This medical condition causes the…
Clinical cost-cutting is bad medicine for quality healthcare
You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. When health insurers justify their foray into clinical services based on cost savings, be alarmed. Your article on the subject raises deep concerns…
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