Health care industry
Airlines to save big money on fuel as new weight loss pills gain popularity, Wall Street says
Celsopupo | Istock | Getty Images Wall Street is finding an unexpected beneficiary of America’s weight loss boom: airlines. With the first GLP-1 weight loss drug now available in pill form, analysts at Jefferies say broad adoption across society could quietly lower fuel bills — airlines’ single largest cost — and lift earnings for the […]
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Healthy Returns: Novo Nordisk CEO on GLP-1 pricing, and more insights from the JPM conference
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 editions. Good morning from San Francisco! It’s day three of the annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference – the biggest gathering of biotech and pharma execs, investors and analysts in […]
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OpenAI acquires health-care technology startup Torch
OpenAI has acquired the health-care technology startup Torch, the company announced on Monday. Torch was building a “unified medical memory” for artificial intelligence that aimed to bring a patient’s health data, which is typically siloed and stored across a number of different vendors and formats, into one place. Torch’s employees will join OpenAI as part […]
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When Becky Quick announced the CNBC Cures initiative, our effort to raise awareness for rare diseases and improve the lives of the 30 million people living with them, we knew the response would be big. We didn’t know it would be this big. The response has been amazing, overwhelming and humbling. Thank you for your interest — […]
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2026 is the year of obesity pills. Here’s how they could reshape the GLP-1 market
The booming GLP-1 space was built on weekly injections. In 2026, new obesity pills will push the market into its next chapter. Patients are already getting their hands on the first GLP-1 pill for obesity from Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk — a once-daily drug that shares the same brand name as its popular injection Wegovy. […]
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Healthy Returns: What to expect from pharma at the JPM conference
Heidi Overton, Novo Nordisk CEO Maziar Mike Doustdar, Eli Lilly CEO David A. Ricks, and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick listen while U.S. President Donald Trump announces a deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk on to reduce the prices of GLP-1 weight‑loss drugs during an event in the Oval Office at the White […]
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A little-known biotech stock has become a prime takeover target after surging nearly 1,700% last year
Europe’s best-performing blue-chip stock in 2025 is widely expected to be bought by a larger peer, in a deal analysts say could be worth as much as $23 billion. Abivax, the French clinical-stage biotech company developing a treatment for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, saw shares rocket 1,681% last year, far outpacing the Stoxx 600 […]
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Patient advocacy groups urge U.S. court to halt overseas prescription drug operations
In a photo illustration, prescription drugs are seen next to a pill bottle on July 23, 2024 in New York. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images A coalition of patient advocacy groups is urging a federal court to halt the practices of third-party companies that buy drugs from countries outside the FDA-regulated […]
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CNBC launches CNBC Cures to help 30 million Americans with rare diseases
Thirty million. It’s a big number. Maybe not in the context of business news, where we usually talk about company valuations that are in the billions, or even trillions. But when we’re talking about people, 30 million is a very big number. Thirty million is the number of people that the National Organization of Rare […]
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CNBC’s Becky Quick details daughter’s rare disease journey
I’ve spent the last 25 years in front of the camera here at CNBC, and people have gotten to know a lot about me. What they don’t know, though, is probably the most important part: My family. And our family is a happy one. But we are also unique, and we have our struggles. Our 9-year-old […]
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