This summary presents current health and legal developments including wildfire smoke health risks, Kroger's opioid settlement ...

Kroger settles an opioid lawsuit in Kentucky for $110 million. The U.S. builds a bird flu vaccine stockpile. Shanghai permits ...

Popular Eli Lilly weight-loss drug Zepbound can be covered by Medicare plans to treat sleep apnea after it received Food and ...

Political and economic uncertainty hangs over the industry, while major bets on metabolic and immune disease drug research are set to play out.

Zepbound is not covered by Medicare or many other insurance plans as a treatment for weight loss. The injectable treatment ...

Eli Lilly's obesity drug Zepbound can now be covered by government-backed Medicare insurance plans for use in sleep apnea, ...

The number of layoffs in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry exceeded 14,000 last year, a 9% increase from 2023 ...

Medicare now covers Eli Lilly's Zepbound for obstructive sleep apnea, FDA-approved for obesity and sleep apnea treatment, ...

When the BIOSECURE Act hit a setback and missed the chance of becoming law in 2024, the deceleration of the draft legislation ...

According to BMO Capital Markets, Medicare coverage of Lilly’s Zepbound opens the door to using secondary indications to ...

Both Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are studying their weight loss drugs to treat fatty liver disease, chronic kidney disease, ...

As employers grapple with including GLP-1s in their benefits packages, they face a complex decision that boils down to two ...