Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks on Friday said upcoming Medicare coverage of obesity drugs could be a major catalyst for the rollout of the company’s closely watched experimental weight loss pill, orforglipron. In an exclusive interview with CNBC, Ricks said Lilly expects to have Medicare coverage for the treatment “immediately following that launch, and that…
Lilly Chair and CEO Dave Ricks speaks during a press conference for Eli Lilly and Company in Houston, Texas, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Antranik Tavitian | Reuters Eli Lilly on Friday said it will spend more than $3.5 billion to build a manufacturing plant in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, that will help make its next-generation obesity…
The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Health costs have emerged as the top financial anxiety for U.S. households, according to a new survey. It’s a dynamic that experts say could pose a threat to the Republican majority in Congress during this year’s…
In 2016, when Susannah Rosen was 2½ years old, her parents, Luke Rosen and Sally Jackson, noticed during bath time that something wasn’t right. When Sally prompted Susannah to playfully kick her legs in the water, she wasn’t able to. “For our first kid, if it was a bee sting, we would run into the…
Boxes of the drug trulicity, made by Eli Lilly and Company, sit on a counter at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, January 9, 2020. George Frey | 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…
Danaher shares dropped on Wednesday because Wall Street was not giving the supplier of tools and equipment to drugmakers and hospitals credit for beating its rosy earnings guidance from earlier this month. Revenue for Danaher’s fourth quarter 2025 rose 4.6% year over year to $6.84 billion, exceeding the LSEG-compiled analyst consensus estimate of nearly $6.81…
UnitedHealth Group Inc. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images UnitedHealth Group on Tuesday posted a modest fourth-quarter earnings beat, but issued soft revenue guidance, as the parent company of the nation’s largest private insurer…
A pharmacist displays a box of Wegovy pills at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, Jan. 15, 2026. George Frey | Bloomberg | Getty Images The future of the booming obesity drug market won’t hinge on drugs that deliver greater weight loss alone. Top executives from drugmakers big and small told CNBC that the next phase…
Raymond Stevens, chief executive officer of Structure Therapeutics Inc., during a Bloomberg Television interview at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. Benjamin Fanjoy | Bloomberg | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight…
US President Donald Trump arrives for an announcement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. Will Oliver | Bloomberg | Getty Images Drug pricing. Looming patent cliffs. Dealmaking. The first year of Trump 2.0. Those are among the themes that dominated conversations last week as drugmakers…
