Category: Health

  • Eli Lilly LLY cuts 2024 income outlook on weight reduction medicine

    Eli Lilly LLY cuts 2024 income outlook on weight reduction medicine

    The Eli Lilly & Co. logo at the company’s Digital Health Innovation Hub facility in Singapore, on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024.  Ore Huiying | Bloomberg | Getty Images Eli Lilly cut its revenue guidance on Tuesday as it said demand for its weight loss and diabetes drugs would not meet its lofty expectations. The drugmaker’s…

  • Excessive-cost weight reduction medication enhance vitamin counseling with employers

    Excessive-cost weight reduction medication enhance vitamin counseling with employers

    Packages of weight loss drugs Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro. Picture Alliance | Getty Images A few years ago, when Virta Health founder and CEO Sami Inkinen approached employers about leveraging the company’s nutrition-oriented digital diabetes program for obesity-related weight loss, most companies weren’t ready to commit.  Now, more employers are all in on nutritional counseling…

  • Surgeon basic points new advisory

    Surgeon basic points new advisory

    A customer drinks a glass of beer at the Saxton Pub in Austin, Texas, April 5, 2023. Brandon Bell | Getty Images The U.S. surgeon general issued a new advisory warning Friday about the link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk, and pushed for policy changes to help reduce the number of alcohol-related cancers.…

  • FDA Zepbound scarcity ends, impacts sufferers, compounding pharmacies

    FDA Zepbound scarcity ends, impacts sufferers, compounding pharmacies

    An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City on Dec. 11, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The roughly $1,000 monthly price tag of Eli Lilly‘s weight loss drug Zepbound put the blockbuster treatment out of reach for Willow Baillies, 29, whose insurance does not cover it. Baillies,…

  • Danaher had a disappointing 2024. Its path to success subsequent 12 months goes by means of Wall Road

    Danaher had a disappointing 2024. Its path to success subsequent 12 months goes by means of Wall Road

    Life sciences firm Danaher has certainly not been an easy stock to own this year. A wave of startups going public on Wall Street would go a long ways toward changing that. Year-to-date performance: down 0.1% Forward price-to-earnings multiple: 27.8 versus a five-year average of 28.8 Our rating: Buy-equivalent 1 Our price target: $305 a…

  • FDA approves Eli Lilly’s weight reduction drug Zepbound for sleep apnea

    FDA approves Eli Lilly’s weight reduction drug Zepbound for sleep apnea

    An Eli Lilly & Co. Zepbound injection pen arranged in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Thursday, March 28, 2024.  Shelby Knowles | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Eli Lilly‘s blockbuster weight loss drug Zepbound for treating patients with the most common sleep-related breathing disorder, expanding…

  • Ozempic faces scrutiny over potential eye situation threat

    Ozempic faces scrutiny over potential eye situation threat

    A box of Ozempic made by Novo Nordisk is seen at a pharmacy in London, Britain March 8, 2024. Hollie Adams | Reuters A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. There may be a…

  • UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty addresses Brian Thompson demise

    UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty addresses Brian Thompson demise

    Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, testifies during the Senate Finance Committee hearing titled “Hacking America’s Health Care: Assessing the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack and What’s Next,” in the Dirksen Building in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 2024. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty on Friday mourned…

  • Weight-loss drug increase has grow to be one of many web’s largest scams

    Weight-loss drug increase has grow to be one of many web’s largest scams

    A production line of Wegovy injection pens for the Asian market at the Novo Nordisk A/S pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Hillerod, Denmark, on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images One interpretation of the law of supply and demand is that when demand outstrips supply, scammers get busy. That’s certainly the case…

  • CDC says McDonald’s E. coli outbreak is over 

    CDC says McDonald’s E. coli outbreak is over 

    In this photo illustration, a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburger meal is seen at a McDonald’s on October 23, 2024 in the Flatbush neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.  Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday said the deadly E. coli outbreak linked to slivered…