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. Novo Nordisk isn’t catching a break this year. Shares of the Danish drugmaker plummeted on Monday after it released data showing that its next-generation obesity drug failed…
A woman and a baby look out of a window of a train in Kyiv, Ukraine. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images Four years of war between Russia and Ukraine are beginning to take their toll on the countries’ demographics as the conflict puts women off — or prevents them — from starting…
A satellite image shows cars on fire along a coastal road in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, Feb. 22, 2026, following the killing of drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, known as “El Mencho,” in a military operation. Vantor | Via Reuters American travel companies are scrambling to reroute cruise ships and take care of tourists to Mexico…
A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Equinox’s $40,000-a-year membership has a waiting list of more than 1,000 people, as demand for luxury health and wellness programs soars, according to…
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks, announcing new nutrition policies during a press conference at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., U.S., Jan. 8, 2026. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended President Donald Trump‘s executive order…
A researcher works in the lab at the Moderna Inc. headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Moderna said on Wednesday the Food and Drug Administration has agreed to review its experimental mRNA flu shot, reversing the agency’s earlier decision to refuse to accept the…
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary told CNBC that he believes “everything should be over-the-counter” unless a drug is unsafe, addictive or requires monitoring – doubling down on a push that some in the pharmaceutical industry have questioned. In an interview on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Makary said the FDA’s aims to make changes…
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Albert Bourla, chairman and CEO of Pfizer, speaks at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival in New York City, U.S., May 22, 2024. Andrew Kelly | Reuters 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…
U.S. President Donald Trump makes an announcement from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. Nov. 6, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump on Thursday is slated to announce the launch of TrumpRx – a direct-to-consumer website that is key to his administration’s efforts to lower prescription drug costs…