Patent expiry looms: Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk strategise to defend their top obesity drugs in India

Patent expiry looms: Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk strategise to defend their top obesity drugs in India

Amid the weight-loss drug frenzy, the India heads of Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk — makers of the world’s most coveted obesity drugs — lay out their playbooks ahead of the March expiry of semaglutide’s patent. In exclusive interviews with Rica Bhattacharyya, Eli Lilly’s Winselow Tucker and Novo Nordisk’s Vikrant Shrotriya detail their strategies on…

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Obesity drug Mounjaro becomes India’s top-selling drug by value in October

Obesity drug Mounjaro becomes India’s top-selling drug by value in October

Eli Lilly‘s weight-loss therapy Mounjaro became India’s top-selling drug by value in October, data showed on Friday, overtaking GSK’s widely used antibiotic Augmentin, as demand surges in the world’s most populous nation. The U.S. drugmaker’s popular injectable therapy raked in 1 billion rupees ($11.38 million) in October, research firm Pharmarack said. That outpaced Augmentin sales…

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STAT+: Kennedy, a longtime pharma critic, embraces Trump deal to expand access to obesity drugs

STAT+: Kennedy, a longtime pharma critic, embraces Trump deal to expand access to obesity drugs

WASHINGTON — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was uncharacteristically chummy with pharma executives at the White House on Thursday as he cheered the Trump administration’s plan for lowering obesity medication prices. Kennedy has railed against drugmakers in the past, and his lifestyle-focused “Make America Healthy Again” movement has opposed Medicare coverage of GLP-1 weight loss…

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