Healthcare

Healthcare

Coming Soon to an Internet Near You: Half-Price, Direct-to-Consumer Wegovy

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Novo Nordisk will sell its blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy for under half its normal price via a new direct-to-consumer online pharmacy.

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Healthcare

Eli Lilly Wants to Bring Pharmaceutical Production Back to the US

Eli Lilly last week announced a $27 billion investment in four different domestic manufacturing plants to boost weight-loss drug production.

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Healthcare

Hims & Hers Struggles After the FDA Puts a Ticking Clock on its Weight-Loss Drug

Now that semaglutide’s no longer in shortage territory, the FDA said drug-makers have 90 days to wrap up production of their Novo knockoffs.

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Healthcare

Weight-Loss Giants Have Investors Back on Their Side

It can be hard to sate investors’ appetites, but if there’s two companies who should know how to do it, it’s these two.

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Healthcare

Merck, Pfizer Wade into a New World for Vaccines

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Pharma giant Merck on Tuesday announced in its earnings report that it would halt all shipments of HPV drug Gardasil to China.

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Big Tech and AI are Quickly Coming for the Healthcare Industry

Tech firms are seeking patents for AI-powered medical devices.

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Healthcare

Let’s Navigate the American Health Care System

Americans make about 150 million trips to emergency departments each year. Their bank accounts wish they made far fewer.

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Healthcare

LinkedIn Cofounder Hoffman’s New AI Oncology Startup Raises $25 Million

Behind the blinding white light of Monday’s trillion–dollar AI wipeout that was a spot of unabashedly good AI news.

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Healthcare

Novo Nordisk May Have Another Blockbuster on its Hands

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On Friday, the Danish pharma giant released the stellar results from a phase 1/2 trial for a once-weekly jab in its pipeline.

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Healthcare

AI Wants to be the Future of Drug Discovery

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Novo Nordisk on Wednesday announced an expanded deal with healthtech firm Valo Health to use AI to fuel drug discovery.

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