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Bet on These Top-Ranked Healthcare ETFs Before 2025 Ends

As we approach the final weeks of 2025, the U.S. healthcare sector has transitioned from a defensive stalwart to a primary market leader. Evidently, while the S&P 500 has delivered a solid return of approximately 15% year to date, the U.S. healthcare index has been consistently challenging this benchmark, with specific sub-sectors like biotechnology outperforming […]

6 moves in 2025 show how insurers leaned into their PBMs

Even as regulators are cracking down on pharmacy benefit managers, some payers have been leaning into their own businesses in 2025.  Here are six payer moves indicating growing PBM interest: 1. Independent Health’s PBM subsidiary, Pharmacy Benefit Dimensions, is one driver behind the insurer’s plans to join MVP Health Care. “Some of the opacities that […]

Why there’s always room for dessert – an anatomist explains

Rimma Bondarenko/Shutterstock.com You push back from the table after Christmas lunch, full from an excellent feast. You really couldn’t manage another bite – except, perhaps, a little bit of pudding. Somehow, no matter how much you’ve eaten, there always seems to be room for dessert. Why? What is it about something sweet that tempts us […]

High-Fat Diet Triggers Hepatocyte Dedifferentiation and Cancer Risk

A high-fat diet is one of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer. Now, a new study reveals a potential mechanism underlying this. The team found that, in response to a high-fat diet, mature hepatocytes in the liver revert to an immature, stem-cell-like state. Although this helps the cells survive the stressful conditions created […]

GLP-1 adherence lags among older adults: 6 notes

A growing body of research suggests that older adults are discontinuing GLP-1 medications at high rates, The New York Times reported Dec. 21. Six things to know: 1. Sixty percent of Americans over age 65 with diabetes discontinued semaglutide within one year, according to a recent study published inJAMA Cardiology. A separate study published earlier […]

Eating Nuts May Help Reduce Food Cravings, Promote Weight Management

Young adults with a higher risk of metabolic syndrome may benefit from eating nuts, researchers say. fcafotodigital/Getty Images A new study suggests that swapping high carb snacks for nuts can help curb sweet cravings. Participants at risk for metabolic syndrome who made the switch also tended to increase their protein intake. Nuts are high in […]

Study: High-fat diets make liver cells more likely to become cancerous

One of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer is a high-fat diet. A new study from MIT reveals how a fatty diet rewires liver cells and makes them more prone to becoming cancerous. The researchers found that in response to a high-fat diet, mature hepatocytes in the liver revert to an immature, stem-cell-like […]