Health Care

KIND Healthy Snacks, the maker of nut and grain snack bars, settled a year-long dispute with the Food and Drug Administration over the company’s use of the word “healthy” to describe its snacks.

What's healthier than a Pop-Tart?

Live Like Jake Foundation founder Keri Morrison weighs in on the controversy over a viral video of her baby falling into a swimming pool.

U.S. health insurer Cigna, which is being bought by larger rival Anthem Inc, reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit as more customers signed up for its Medicare Advantage business, boosting premiums.

Study shines light on retirees’ attitudes about life in retirement, time commitments, living arrangements, personal finances -- and also the things they "wish they knew then."

Dow component Merck reported an adjusted 1Q profit of $0.89 per share, topping the estimate for $0.85. Revenue for the drugmaker came in at $9.3 billion, falling short of the estimate for $9.46 billion.

Former drug executive Martin Shkreli, who last year became a lightning rod for outrage over soaring prescription drug prices, may face additional U.S. charges of securities fraud, a federal prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a U.S. jury on Monday to pay $55 million to a woman who said that using the company’s talc-powder products for feminine hygiene caused her to develop ovarian cancer.

CVS Health reported an adjusted 1Q profit of $1.18 per share, topping the estimate for $1.16. Revenue for the company came in at $43.22 billion, beating the estimate for $43 billion.

Pfizer reported first-quarter revenue that blew past analysts' average estimate, boosted by sales of its new treatments for cancer and its Hospira acquisition.

Puerto Rico has 683 confirmed cases of the Zika virus, including 65 pregnant women with symptoms of the virus and one death, U.S. health officials said on Friday.

Quest Diagnostics said it has received emergency authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell the first commercially developed diagnostic test for Zika in the United States, a step that may help expand testing capacity and speed diagnosis of the virus.