Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud.

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Under a mutual agreement with the board of directors, longtime Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen—who recently shepherded the company through its GLP-1 growth boom—is heading for the exit.

Novo Nordisk's limited-time coupon on Wegovy was simultaneously promoted by telehealth companies Ro and Wegovy ...

Cigna has announced a deal to cap client copays on popular GLP-1 weight loss drugs by Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk at $200 per ...

Novo Nordisk will sell a less expensive one-month supply of Wegovy for patients who previously took compounded versions of the medication.

Novo Nordisk boosts Wegovy access with discounts as FDA bans compounded semaglutide drugs and cracks down on weight-loss copycats.

The agreements cap monthly out-of-pocket costs for Zepbound and Wegovy at $200 and more deeply discount the drugs for ...

Widely used GLP-1 drugs for type 2 diabetes such as Novo Nordisk's Ozempic may modestly reduce the risk of obesity-related ...

Wegovy belongs to a pricey class of drugs called GLP-1s (short for glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists) that have upended the ...

The Danish drugmaker unveiled a series of initiatives to increase access to Wegovy and clamp down on use of the knock-off ...

Health plan sponsors are also expected to see a reduction in the net cost per prescription of GLP-1 medications to treat obesity.