The Latest Breaking News from Health Care

Amid persisting inflation and the Fed’s determination to tackle it with restrictive policies, the inelastic demand for the healthcare sector could offer protection in a volatile market. Given healthcare’s solid growth potential, investors might buy fundamentally strong stocks UnitedHealth Group (UNH), CVS Health (CVS), and HCA Healthcare (HCA) this week.…

In January, Marilyn Vetter, 55, of New Richmond, Wis., was named CEO of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, which was founded 40 years ago in St. Paul and today is headquartered in White Bear Lake. Vetter replaces Howard Vincent, who led PF for 25 years and who announced last year…

The U.S. faces a shortfall of about 450,000 nurses and 120,000 doctors in the coming years. The Senate's top health committee, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, is considering bipartisan solutions.

The recent decision by federal law enforcement officials to shut down what they call a fraudulent, faith-based Missouri medical cost-sharing company reveals, again, a major failure of America’s health care system.

The Republican-controlled Mississippi Senate has given final approval to a bill that would ban gender-affirming care in the state for anyone younger than 18

In an interview with the Tribune, the governor also backed criminalizing some health care treatments for transgender kids and shrugged off the idea that he’s in a conservative policy rivalry with Ron DeSantis.

Researchers have documented more than 700 attacks against health care facilities and staff a year into Russia’s war in Ukraine

Senators are eying the growing shortage of health care workers in the United States as one of the few problems where there is room for bipartisan solutions, even in a deeply divided Congress gearing up for a presidential election cycle.

A shortage of healthcare workers has led to calls for a bipartisan solution despite a divided Congress

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated an already short supply of therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers.

An aging population and innovation in treatments should continue to bode well for the healthcare sector for the longer term. With healthcare being vital for well-being and wallet, one could invest in quality healthcare stocks Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), and Centene Corp. (CNC). Read on….