White House launches direct to consumer drug site

President Donald Trump makes an announcement from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Nov. 6, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the launch of TrumpRx — a direct-to-consumer website that is key to his administration’s efforts to lower prescription drug costs in the U.S.  The president said…

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A diplomacy tightrope for Britain’s Starmer after Trump’s tirades

This report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. The dispatch British diplomats have long prided themselves on the so-called “special relationship” with the United States. The phrase was coined by Winston Churchill, Britain’s inspirational wartime leader, when in March 1946 he famously described how an “iron curtain” had descended across…

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Novo Nordisk CEO talks GLP-1 pill at JPMorgan conference

A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. Good morning from San Francisco! It’s day three of the annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference — the biggest gathering of biotech and pharma execs, investors and analysts in…

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What to expect from pharma at the JPM conference

Heidi Overton, Novo Nordisk CEO Maziar “Mike” Doustdar, Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick listen while President Donald Trump announces a deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to reduce the prices of GLP-1 weight loss drugs during an event in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington,…

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