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Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk are the two superpowers in the obesity drug wars. But, as Elizabeth Cairns and Kyle LaHucik report, they’re trying in very different ways to maintain that dominance.

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Karen Weintraub
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by Drew Armstrong

Is the era of the big phar­ma megamerg­er about to re­turn?

This week­end, the news broke that As­traZeneca and Bris­tol My­ers Squibb were al­leged­ly in...

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Novo Nordisk CEO Maziar Mike Doustdar (left) and Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks (Viktoria Nikolova for Endpoints News)
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by Kyle LaHucik, Elizabeth Cairns

For years, No­vo Nordisk and Eli Lil­ly have dom­i­nat­ed the con­ver­sa­tion sur­round­ing obe­si­ty med­i­cines as the du­op­oly com­petes to lead the largest phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal cat­e­go­ry in...

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Pfiz­er an­nounced $2.5 bil­lion in cost cuts, tak­ing an­oth­er step in a post-Covid strat­e­gy that has been de­fined by mid-sized deal­mak­ing and con­stant ex­pense trim­ming...

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