obesity

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: EU fines Illumina $475M for closing Grail deal; life-threatening lead poisoning antidote in short supply

The Obesity Revolution Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: How the new weight loss drugs could upend our understanding of craving, desire, and addiction

Biotech Damian Garde, Andrew Joseph and Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: What to know about this summer’s landmark Wegovy heart health study

Biotech Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: With savvy bets, a dynamic duo makes Eli Lilly one of pharma’s biggest success stories

Exclusive Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Novo Nordisk bought prescribers over 450,000 meals and snacks to promote drugs like Ozempic

Health Elaine Chen

Stop taking Ozempic before surgery, anesthesiologist group recommends

The Readout LOUD Damian Garde, Meg Tirrell and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: Novavax’s CEO promises a turnaround & how Lilly roiled the obesity market

Pharma Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: After late start, Eli Lilly has the momentum in battle for $30 billion weight loss market

Health Tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: With Wegovy and Ozempic’s success, can device makers keep up in the race to treat obesity?

Biotech Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: U.K. agency declines to recommend Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro for type 2 diabetes

Health Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Fatty liver disease was alleviated by Lilly’s ‘triple-G’ obesity drug in small study

Health Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Ozempic 3.0? Lilly’s ‘triple-G’ drug shows biggest weight loss yet in mid-stage trial

Pharmalot Ed Silverman and Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: STAT-Harris Poll: Nearly half of U.S. adults would spend $100 a month for Ozempic, other weight loss drugs

Health Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Lilly’s obesity pill cuts 15% of weight at highest dose in mid-stage trial

Health Elaine Chen

Diabetes will be ‘a defining disease of this century’ as global cases are set to surpass one billion by 2050

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Novo Nordisk sues spas and clinics for selling versions of Wegovy and Ozempic for weight loss

Health Elaine Chen

Why it won’t be so easy for medicine to displace BMI

Health Brittany Trang and Elaine Chen

AMA asks doctors to de-emphasize use of BMI in gauging health and obesity

Health Elaine Chen

Ro pauses advertising of weight loss drug Wegovy amid shortages

Health Elaine Chen

Obesity impairs brain responses to nutrients, even after weight loss, study finds

The Obesity Revolution Julia Belluz and J. Emory Parker

Here’s why obesity grew so quickly worldwide, and where that’s starting to change

Health H Conley

Studies show top surgery is safe for fat patients, but some surgeons still mandate weight loss

Health Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Insurance alone didn’t guarantee adherence to Ozempic, study finds

The Readout LOUD Damian Garde, Meg Tirrell and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: ChatGPT in medicine, a boom in weight loss pills, & Sarepta at the FDA

Pharma Damian Garde

STAT Plus: Novo says oral version of Ozempic leads to 15% weight loss

Health Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Novo Nordisk pauses ads for weight loss drug Wegovy as it struggles to meet demand

Pharma Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: In small study, weight loss drug boosts immune cells that help fight cancer

Pharma Ambar Castillo

STAT Plus: ‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul’: Obesity experts debate risks of new weight loss drugs

The Readout LOUD Damian Garde, Meg Tirrell and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: Lilly’s Alzheimer’s success, a milestone FDA approval, & Moderna’s shrinking business