Health

A GE Healthcare plant in Shanghai stopped making the Omnipaque contrast agent for several weeks during China’s Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns.

North Korea reported its biggest daily surge in fever cases during a nationwide outbreak of Covid-19.

Net inflows into defensive ETFs this year have already topped 2021’s total and are on pace to surpass 2020 levels too.

The drugstore chain tapped the former marketing chief of Calvin Klein as its new CMO and named two other senior executives to support its expanded healthcare strategy.

The big healthcare-focused real-estate investment trust made a nearly $5 billion all-cash bid for Healthcare Realty shortly after the smaller REIT agreed to merge with a rival earlier this year.

A recapitalization deal for Envision Healthcare comes at the expense of most prior lenders, releasing their claims on its AmSurg unit

The firm is pitching a new flagship fund as well as vehicles targeting royalties and Asia deals.

The National Health Service Corps says it is bound by rules that require participants to pay back loans plus penalties if they default.

The healthcare and health-insurance giant posted double-digit percentage revenue growth at its Optum and UnitedHealthcare units, as the Omicron variant-driven surge in Covid cases at the start of the quarter faded.

The Dallas-based private-equity firm closed its second healthcare-focused investment fund above its $300 million target and plans to invest it in smaller businesses in the sector

The drugmaker is to cut nearly a third of its consumer healthcare products in Russia as executives across the pharmaceutical industry grapple with an ethical dilemma over their response to the war in Ukraine.

Asset manager Janus Henderson Group PLC led a $115 million investment in IntelyCare, Inc. in a deal valuing the company, whose app matches nurses with open shifts at healthcare providers, at $1.1 billion.

Spending is projected to have increased 4.2% in 2021, following a pandemic-fueled rise of 9.7% in 2020, report finds.

A glitch related to a health-records system run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs forced the network offline in some locations, the latest hiccup in the agency’s yearslong effort to replace a system developed in the 1980s.

The owner-operator of medical-office buildings around the country is in advanced talks to combine with a smaller rival in a deal that could create a company worth more than $10 billion.

The antitrust lawsuit argues the $13 billion tie-up would lead to higher costs.

Several lower courts are considering challenges to the administration’s other Covid-19 vaccine requirements, including for federal employees and contractors.

The bill was pulled from consideration hours before a planned vote in the California Assembly after its author concluded there wasn’t enough support for it to pass.

After their failed push on elections legislation, Democrats are again turning to the economic plan, which President Biden said the party might cut into separate pieces.

The healthcare and health-insurance company’s fourth-quarter results showed little sign of a serious impact from costs tied to Omicron’s spread last month.