Once used by vets to anesthetize elephants, carfentanil is now an extremely dangerous illicit drug often disguised as an oxycodone tablet—and it's 100 times stronger than fentanyl.

If a review of recent Lowell area drug arrests is any indication, one particular prescription stimulant has become ...

Novo Nordisk CEO Mike Doustdar has a plan to steer the company through what’s been described as a “show me” year. The Danish drugmaker kicked off 2026 with its explosive obesity pill launch, but ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Among early users of Novo Nordisk's (NOVOb.CO), opens new tab new Wegovy weight-loss pill, 36% had no prior experience taking a GLP-1 medication, a new nationwide ...

The US Food and Drug Administration said a TV advertisement for Novo Nordisk A/S’s new weight-loss pill included “false or misleading” claims about the drug’s ability to help users shed pounds, adding ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Telehealth company Hims & Hers said Thursday it will launch a cheaper, off-brand version of the weight-loss pill Wegovy, just weeks after drugmaker Novo Nordisk launched its highly ...

For the last year, any discussion of the obesity-drug market has come with an asterisk: Everything will change once pill versions of the popular GLP-1 drugs arrive. Those potentially cheaper ...

Weight loss drug Wegovy will now be offered as a pill, beginning at $150 per month. Trump offered to unfreeze funding for NYC tunnel if Dulles Airport, train station renamed for him, source says ...

Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Pharmalittle newsletter and ...

Novo Nordisk’s oral version of Wegovy, a GLP-1 for obesity, could be the fastest drug launch in U.S. history, according to an analysis from Leerink Partners, a healthcare investment bank. Leerink ...

Authorities announced Wednesday that an elderly man who used his 2010 lottery winnings to run a drug empire from his cottage alongside his son and two accomplices, has been sentenced to jail. John ...

Ozempic has become so embedded in global culture that “Ozempic face” was shortlisted for a prominent dictionary’s word of the year in 2025. Ozempic isn’t the only drug that mimics the natural GLP-1 ...