Sector: Health Care

The SPDR Health Care Select Sector exchange-traded fund is less than a sneeze from its recent highs, and some bulls are looking for it to pop.   Read More

With the crush of layoffs during the recession, it was easy to play the old "you're lucky to have a job" card. Now, as the economy starts to sputter back, you’re going to have to come up with some new material — or you’re going to have a mutiny on your hands.   Read More

Few stock sectors are as reliable as drugs and health care, and astute investors know that companies such as Merck, Pfizer, and Abbott Laboratories have delivered healthy returns over the years. One stock that investors have become less enamored with, however, is Johnson & Johnson.    Read More

With all this “fiscal cliff” talk about the US economy falling off a cliff and the 2012 presidential election it's really easy to rapid fire critiques from your living room. Well guess what, armchair politicians? You're up! It's your turn to get the debt under control with a new "Stabilize the U.S. Debt" game.   Read More

A new report lists home health care as one of the top five most profitable franchises in the U.S.    Read More

Someone is looking for a big move in Cigna. The health insurer’s last earnings report missed estimates, but the company did raise full-year guidance. An even bigger catalyst is expected in June, when the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of national health care.   Read More

The makers of a deer antler velvet product are suing Major League Baseball for libel after the league told players to stop taking the performance enhancer so as not to risk testing positive for a steroid that wasn't listed as an ingredient.   Read More

Two companies have teamed up to market fingerprint-based drug testing to police, prisons, and, they hope, American companies.     Read More

Is there anything worse than a long wait in a doctor's office? How about a ruptured eardrum in the middle of a cross-country flight? That's how ZocDoc was born.   Read More

A small-business advocacy group that has fought the nation’s new health care laws all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court is now pushing five market-based solutions it claims will bring down the skyrocketing health care costs small-business owners face.    Read More