Novo Nordisk has won the race to secure approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the first weight-loss drug to be administered orally. Jules Rimmer is a markets reporter in ...

Novo Nordisk first to market with Wegovy pill Analysts see potential but question if pills are a 'game changer' Advantage for Novo could be short-lived, analysts say The approval of Novo's Wegovy pill ...

Every chief executive dreams of it: a product so successful that it propels their company from obscurity to superstardom seemingly overnight. Among the lessons from 2025, however, is that runaway ...

Novo Nordisk, which has stumbled through a bit of a manufacturing hangover at a former Catalent production site it picked up a year ago, was hit with a warning letter from the FDA last month. The ...

When Novo Nordisk launched Wegovy, its pioneering weight-loss jab, in America in June 2021, it felt like it was “running into a dark tunnel”, recalls Maziar Mike Doustdar, who took over as the Danish ...

Novo Nordisk is hitting the gas on amycretin development. After posting phase 2 data, the company has decided to run pivotal diabetes trials of an asset that it previously saw primarily as an obesity ...

Shares in Novo Nordisk, the Danish maker of Ozempic and Wegovy, tumbled after studies showed the active ingredient in its hit weight-loss drugs didn't slow the progress of Alzheimer's disease. Novo ...

A Novo Nordisk challenge has driven a Pennsylvania-based telehealth company to voluntarily discontinue compounded semaglutide product claims, adding to the Danish drugmaker’s string of wins against ...

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. Within the next two weeks ...

Google is updating the Gemini app today with a better way to use photo-to-video generation by adding visual ingredients. You can now upload up to three reference images to guide Veo in the Gemini app.

Novo Nordisk has reported the mixed midphase results behind its push to enter a heart disease market served by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, BridgeBio and Pfizer. The phase 2 trial compared two doses of ...

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. Pfizer has won the ...