Eighty Percent of New Wegovy Pill Patients Have Never Taken a GLP-1 Before
Novo's pill has reached 2M scripts and 1M patients in 16 weeks; 80% had never taken a GLP-1 before, and the volume is now changing households, not just balance sheets.
Nora Whitfield
Bureau: Chicago
Cochrane vs Kisunla Day Twenty-Two as the NICE June Tenth Reconsultation Becomes the Decision That Counts
Both sides of the Alzheimer's drug fight have institutional skin in the game — and the British price-and-coverage decision lands June 10, not in the press cycle.
Foundayo Week Four Lands Friday Against A Ninety-Thousand-Script Bar Twelve Weeks Out
Friday's IQVIA print is the binary — Foundayo's week-four script count either compresses the 24x gap to Wegovy's pill or breaks RBC's $1.4B FY model.
Two Opposing GLP-One Mental Health Studies Sit On The FDA Desk As The Wegovy Pill Hits A Million Patients
A 95,490-person Swedish cohort says semaglutide cuts depression risk 44 percent while a ScienceDirect comparator-class study says the opposite — and both designs now sit on the FDA's desk.
Cinco's Day-Two Receipt Is The Tequila Retail Curve Behind The State-By-State Margarita Price
VinePair's Ground Signal map prints 262,262 margaritas across 66,583 venues — the retail curve behind it shows tequila up 20 percent quarter-on-quarter in Chicago and 4.8 percent YTD in New Hampshire.
Utah Measles Holds Past Six Hundred Thirty-Eight As The State And CIDRAP Counts Diverge
Utah's outbreak passes 638 cases, national 1,814 across 24 outbreaks, 92 percent unvaccinated or unknown — the state DOH and CIDRAP counts diverge by nearly 200.
APHIS Loosens Dairy Testing Day Two As Idaho Holds Eighty-Six Confirmed Herds
Day 2 of APHIS's effective-immediately exemption for unaffected-state dairy cattle — Idaho holds 86 confirmed dairy herds and 59 in quarantine across four counties.
Eugene Braunwald, the Cardiologist Whose Textbook Outlived the Field He Built, Dies at 96
Eugene Braunwald, called the father of modern cardiology, died April 22 at 96; the TIMI Study Group and Braunwald's Heart Disease textbook outlive him.