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Hims’ Pivot to Branded Obesity Drugs Comes With Rising Costs

Hims & Hers Health Inc. reported a first-quarter loss and sales that missed Wall Street estimates as it faces higher costs associated with its strategic pivot to branded weight-loss medications.

The Hers app arranged on a smartphone in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. A Super Bowl ad touting Hims & Hers Health Inc.'s copycat weight-loss drugs is getting pushback from the branded drugmakers' lobbying group, which says it's "misleading" and potentially violates marketing rules.
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Trump Nominates Saphier for Surgeon General, Pulls Means

President Donald Trump pulled the nomination of wellness entrepreneur Casey Means to be US surgeon general and named Nicole Saphier, a radiologist, to replace her.

Casey Means during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing in Washington in February. Photographer: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg
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Pfizer’s Long-Awaited Lyme Vaccine Fails to Impress in Study

Pfizer Inc. said its experimental Lyme disease vaccine was 73% effective against the tick-borne illness, a lackluster result as fewer-than-expected infections in the pivotal study made its potency hard to evaluate.

A child receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a pediatric's office in West Bloomfield, Michigan, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. Younger children, ages 5 to 11-year-old, across the U.S. are now eligible to receive Pfizer Inc.'s Covid-19 vaccine, after the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention granted the final clearance needed for shots to begin. Photographer: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg
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Lilly and Novo Whipsaw Wall Street With Split in Obesity Outlook

Within the span of 19 hours, weight loss drugmakers Novo Nordisk A/S and Eli Lilly & Co. offered wildly divergent views on where business is headed. After Novo shocked the market by warning sales could decline by as much as 13% this year, Lilly followed with a surprise to the upside, forecasting an as much as 27% rise.

Injection pens on the Wegovy line at the Novo Nordisk A/S production facilities in Hillerod, Denmark.
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