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Healthcare encompasses a wide range of organized services to prevent, treat, and diagnose medical needs and mental illnesses. The $336 billion market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 8% until 2030, demonstrating the necessity of adequate healthcare. Healthcare companies, ranging from retailer CVS to insurance giant UnitedHealth, provide these services to a massive customer base.

Recent Healthcare Stocks Articles

Pharmacy Benefit Firms Await Generic Drug Paydays

These stocks offer a way to play the coming prescription drug boom.

Buy Stocks That Stood Strong This Month

Buy the two dozen stocks that stood above the crowd in the latest sell off.

BioMimetic Options Draw a Bull

Options trader invests in bull spread on biotech firm BioMimetic Therapeutics (NASDAQ: BMTI).

Medicis, Allergen Looking Good as Vanity Stock Plays

Amid a recession, plastic surgeries grew 5% last year.

Lilly Targets Animal Health Kingdom

The company looks to offset its flagging core drug business with another animal-health acquisition.

Buyout May Be Lilly’s Best Hope

A shareholder proposal may clear the way for a takeover of the pharmaceutical giant.

How to Play the Personalized Medicine Boom

Molecular diagnostics stocks may have some untapped upside.

Zalicus Proves It’s the Best ’11 Stock

Michael Murphy picked leading biotech stock Zalicus as his single best stock to buy in 2011. With +36% gains since Jan. 1, he was right.

Cisco, Coinstar Top Option Volume

Options trading mild but bears haunt Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) while Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR) rallied. Star Scientific (NASDAQ: CIGX) was active.

IBM Rallies in Intraday Options Trading

IBM (NYSE: IBM) was active in intraday options trading along with Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc. ( NASDAQ: CHSI) and TCF Financial Corp. (NYSE: TCB).

Stocks to Buy for 7 Demographic Mega-Trends

Stock market investing and demographics go hand in hand. Find out how expensive crude oil prices, soaring gold price inflation and other trends affect your stocks.

Qualcomm, Human Genome See Busy Options

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Human Genome Sciences (NASDAQ: HGSI) active in options trading today, along with Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR).

Lorillard, USO Lead Intraday Options Action

Option traders at midday were actively trading large spread positions in Lorillard Inc. (NYSE: LO), and the United States Oil Fund LP (NYSE: USO).

VIX Up, Western Digital Rises, ARMH Down

The market sell off has the CBOE Volatility Index (CBOE: VIX) jumping 10% and put options selling briskly.

Buy Humana Calls, Royal Caribbean Puts

Buy call options on Humana (NYSE: HUM) as it rises, and buy puts on Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE: RCL) as it declines.

Flextronics, Bristol-Myers Top Midday Options

Options midday see volume in a huge straddle in Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX), and Bristol-Myers (NYSE: BMY) action after Goldman recommendation.

Expecting a Chinese Drug Boom? Go Local

With a 70% market share, small domestic companies are poised to win big.

8 Biotech Penny Stocks to Buy Now

Biotech penny stocks to buy include Lexicon LXRX, AVI BioPharma AVII, Dyax, AEterna AEZS and others.

7 Health Care Stocks to Sell

Big pharma is in big trouble, with looming patent expirations and drug generic competition weighing on drug related stocks.