Connecticut passed a new law last week in an effort to lower its spending on weight-loss drugs for its state insurance program — HUSKY Health, which includes Medicaid and CHIP enrollees — and it could ...

Modern weight loss medications represent a breakthrough, but they are most effective when combined with the right lifestyle strategies. Here's what that looks like.

UnitedHealth Group's pharmacy benefits manager, OptumRx Inc., was hit with an Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ...

More than half of large U.S. employers plan to scale back healthcare benefits next year as rising costs from weight-loss and ...

Health plan trustees at a Minneapolis- based construction workers union are suing a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group for paying more than $4 million for costly weight-loss drugs, depleting union funds ...

New and disturbing concerns about fake GLP-1 drugs are cited in a letter sent to the FDA by Tennessee officials, including Sen. Marsha Blackburn.

Pharmaceutical giants introduce an insurance-free pathway for top anticoagulant Eliquis, following similar direct-to-patient ...

Newly published research claims those taking GLP-1 jabs are at a 37 percent lower risk of dementia than those on the ...

NEW YORK >> More than half of large U.S. employers plan to scale back healthcare benefits next year as rising costs from ...

An obesity drug from Hengrui Pharma and Kailera Therapeutics succeeded in a late-stage trial in China, while Anne Wojcicki’s ...