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2025 is the Year of the Weight Loss Pill

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Traditionally, New Year’s resolutions to lose weight involve getting to the gym more. In a post-GLP-1 world, that’s looking less necessary.

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Healthcare

Pharmapalooza: Earnings Highlight Highs and Lows of Cutthroat Sector

It’s just another earnings week in the life of pharmaceutical CEOs, with blockbuster expectations running up against cruel reality.

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Healthcare

Weight-Loss Drugs Might Not Tank Medicare After All

New estimates say that Medicare will spend tens of billions of dollars over nine years to cover weight-loss drugs.

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Healthcare

Eli Lilly’s Weight-Loss Drug Finally Off FDA Shortage List

The Food and Drug Administration declared an end to the scarcity of Eli Lilly’s highly in-demand weight-loss and diabetes drugs on Thursday.

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Healthcare

Making Weight-Loss Drugs Takes a Whole Lot of Muscle

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In the obesity drug industry, two players have really been throwing their weight around. There isn’t a third in sight.

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Big Tech

2024: The Year the DOJ Cracked Google

US antitrust enforcement against Big Tech kicked up a gear in 2024 when the DOJ won its case against Google. Does Big Tech need to worry?

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Big Tech

2024: The Year Big Tech Got into the Energy Game

This year Big Tech got into the energy game in a big way, and if it wants to chase AI it’ll need even more energy in years to come.

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Consumer

Is the Restaurant Industry at the End of an Era?

Across-the-board inflation — including food costs, labor costs, and real estate costs — is pummeling restaurants. Can the industry survive?

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