Weight-loss drugs

Healthcare

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

Study Suggests Weight-Loss Drugs Like Ozempic May Help Alcoholism, Opioid Addiction

A new study suggests increasingly popular GLP-1 drugs could help cut opioid and alcohol abuse nearly in half.

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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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Technology

Obesity Drugmaker Rivus Wants in on the Healthcare IPO Boom

Obesity drugmaker Rivus is working with banks to complete a US public listing that could happen before the end of the year.

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