Live updates for August 4-8, 2025

Live updates for August 4-8, 2025

The near-term outlook suddenly looks precarious for a stock market that’s near all-time highs, even after Friday’s big sell-off. Next week, investors will continue to act on what they learned this week. On the one hand, the artificial intelligence story that’s powered the stock market rally the last several months remains intact, with Microsoft this…

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Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro shows similar heart health benefits as Trulicity

Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro shows similar heart health benefits as Trulicity

Eli Lilly on Thursday said its blockbuster diabetes drug Mounjaro showed heart health benefits in a late-stage trial directly comparing it to the company’s older diabetes treatment, Trulicity. Mounjaro met the study’s main goal of showing that it wasn’t any worse than Trulicity at treating people with Type 2 diabetes and established cardiovascular disease. Eli Lilly…

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Weight loss drugs could help treat PCOS

Weight loss drugs could help treat PCOS

Wegovy injection pens arranged in Waterbury, Vermont, US, on Monday, April 28, 2025. Shelby Knowles | Bloomberg | Getty Images For well over a decade, Grace Hamilton, 27, experienced hair loss, heavy periods, infrequent menstrual cycles, mental health issues and difficulty losing weight without knowing why. It wasn’t until 2021 when she was diagnosed with…

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Trump 200% pharma tariffs threaten to push up drug prices, hit margins

Trump 200% pharma tariffs threaten to push up drug prices, hit margins

Shelf of pharmaceutical products. D3sign | Moment | Getty Images The pharmaceutical industry is scrambling with scenario planning as U.S. President Donald Trump’s 200% tariff proposal threatens to drive up drug prices and rip out corporate profit margins. The president once again warned on Tuesday that long-awaited industry-wide tariffs would be announced “very soon” after…

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