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Quest Diagnostics raises annual forecast on testing demand

July 23 (Reuters) - Quest Diagnostics on Thursday raised its full-year profit forecast, after demand for routine diagnostic testing helped the company beat second-quarter estimates. Shares of the New Jersey-based company rose about 5% in premarket trading following the results. Here are the details: • Demand ...
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Cigna says AI tools to save customers $200 million in medical expenses over three years

By Amina Niasse NEW YORK, July 23 (Reuters) - Health insurer Cigna said on Thursday that the artificial intelligence tools it is employing to identify patients with chronic or complex conditions will save customers $200 million in medical costs over the next three years. Bryan Holgerson, ...
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Biking to work: Tips to get started, stay safe and look presentable when you arrive

NEW YORK (AP) - When 72-year-old Michael Roper rides his bicycle to and from the pub he owns in Chicago, he can't imagine a better way to commute. He's getting exercise, drifting through fresh air and catching glimpses of neighborhood life - a recently ...
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What experts are saying as Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda kills more than 1,000 people

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has killed more than 1,000 people in eastern Congo as health officials race to contain a virus with no approved vaccine or treatment. An update from Congo's public health ⁠institute on Wednesday said there ...
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Molina falls on concerns around Obamacare, Medicaid businesses

By Christy Santhosh July 23 (Reuters) - Shares of health insurer Molina Healthcare fell 9% in premarket trading on Thursday as concerns about the company's Obamacare and Medicaid businesses weighed on its second-quarter results. The company late on Wednesday posted quarterly profit and revenue that beat ...
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Thermo Fisher beats quarterly estimates as customer demand improves

July 23 (Reuters) - Thermo Fisher Scientific beat Wall Street estimates for second-quarter profit and revenue on Thursday, as improving customer demand lifted sales across all its business segments. Shares of the Waltham, Massachusetts-based company were up nearly 4% in premarket trading. The life sciences ...
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West Pharmaceutical raises annual profit forecast on strong demand for injectable drug components

July 23 (Reuters) - West Pharmaceutical Services raised its annual profit and revenue forecasts on Thursday as strong demand for components used in injectable drugs, including diabetes and obesity treatments, helped it beat second-quarter estimates. Here are the details: • West Pharma makes components such ...
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Lilly announces more next-gen obesity drug data, plans Q1 2027 FDA application

By Deena Beasley July 23 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly on Thursday said two more Phase 3 trials of its experimental obesity drug retatrutide showed positive results and it plans to submit an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the first quarter of ...
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Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive

HETAUDA, Nepal (AP) - She paces the side of the darkened highway in central Nepal, just enough light from the trucks roaring past to illuminate her painted face to the men rolling in on rickshaws and motorbikes. She knows that every stranger who pays ...
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What to know from the AP’s report on the impact of USAID cuts on impoverished aid workers in Nepal

HETAUDA, Nepal (AP) - The United States' decision to slash its foreign aid program has been devastating for scores of aid workers left jobless by the funding cuts, contributing to poverty, violence and an increased risk of HIV transmission, The Associated Press has found. When ...
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PHOTO ESSAY: By a dark, dangerous highway in Nepal, aid workers fired by USAID cuts turn to sex work

HETAUDA, Nepal (AP) - For years, aid workers in central Nepal visited the shadowy spot alongside a darkened highway where transgender sex workers gather each night, offering them free HIV tests and counseling. Today, those aid workers still visit this spot - but this ...
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What a reporter learned covering the impact of USAID cuts on aid workers-turned-sex workers in Nepal

HETAUDA, Nepal (AP) - Associated Press reporter Kristen Gelineau, who has been covering the impact of U.S. foreign aid cuts, reported and wrote the story of how the cuts have prompted scores of unemployed aid workers in Nepal to turn to sex work to ...
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