Healthy Returns: Amgen joins a growing list of drugmakers selling directly to consumers

[ad_1] The Amgen headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California. Eric Thayer | Bloomberg | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. Drugmakers are increasingly using telehealth platforms to sell their medicines directly to … Read more

Digital health companies got pummeled by Wall Street in 2024 as industry adapts to post-Covid slowdown

[ad_1] Doximity at the New York Stock Exchange for their IPO, June 24, 2021. Source: NYSE If the Covid era marked a boom time for digital health companies, 2024 was the reckoning. In a year that saw the Nasdaq jump 32%, surpassing 20,000 for the first time this month, health tech providers largely suffered. Of … Read more

The ‘Trump trade’ has divided health-care stocks into two camps. How to play the next moves

[ad_1] This year’s presidential election is already sending health-care stocks on a wild ride. Historically, shifts in political control have created “increased volatility” across the health care sector, sending investors “to look for areas of safety,” Raymond James analyst Chris Meekins said in a July 7 note. “This election is likely to produce distinct, binary, … Read more