CVS Health Wednesday reported a $4 billion third-quarter loss related to the reduced value of its Oak Street Health primary care facilities, but the company is getting a handle on health costs that have hit its Aetna health insurance business.
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CVS Health Wednesday reported a $4 billion third-quarter loss related to the reduced value of its Oak Street Health primary care facilities, but the company is getting a handle on health costs that have hit its Aetna health insurance business.
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A new study showed that regularly listening to music, whether its’ from Sir Mix A Lot (pictured here) or someone else, is associated with lower likelihoods of cognitive decline and dementia. (Photo by Anthony Pidgeon/Redferns via Getty Images)

The two parts of the Inner Cosmos Digital Pill device
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I’ve covered the XR and wearable technology spaces for a long time as a technology industry analyst, including healthcare wearables and brain-computer interface products that…

Healthcare premiums: two fifty dollar paper money bill notes on pile of broken glass shards, blue background.
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Too many people are unaware that healthcare premiums for over 20 million Americans will increase significantly on Saturday unless…


Rare genetic diseases can now be detected in patients, and tumor-specific mutations identified — a milestone made possible by DNA sequencing, which transformed biomedical research decades ago. In recent years, the introduction of new sequencing…

Two types of processed hard fats commonly found in foods like baked goods, margarines, and spreads appear to have little impact on heart health when eaten in realistic amounts.
Researchers from King’s College London and Maastricht University…

Two small genetic changes reshaped the human pelvis, setting our early ancestors on the path to upright walking, scientists say.
One genetic change flipped the ilium — the bone your hands rest on when you put them on your hips —…

In recent years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved more than a dozen gene-editing and cell-based therapies.
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We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of…

Patients with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of beginning immunotherapy treatment lived considerably longer than those who were not vaccinated, according to new research.
Scientists from the…