Stripes Beauty Founder and Chief Creative Officer Naomi Watts speaking at the CNBC Changemakers Summit in New York City on April 16, 2026. CNBC Oscar-nominated actress Naomi Watts has continued to have fame on the screen into her 50s, but she is building more of her life story around navigating deeply personal and often unspoken…
Piotr Swat | Lightrocket | Getty Images As its high-margin compounded GLP-1 business evolves, Hims & Hers Health may be finding a new opportunity in peptides. Shares of the telehealth company jumped Thursday after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday that the FDA plans to convene a Pharmacy Compounding Advisory…
Rear Admiral Erica G. Schwartz. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Erica Schwartz to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, concluding a monthslong effort to choose a permanent leader of the embattled health agency. Schwartz, who will have to be confirmed by the…
People walk past a sign for Novo Nordisk’s annual general meeting at the entrance to the venue in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 26, 2026. Tom Little | Reuters Novo Nordisk is partnering with OpenAI to “bring new and better treatment options to patients faster,” the Danish drugmaker said Tuesday. The partnership will enable Novo to better…
Citizen Health CEO and Co-founder Farid Vij, and Citizen Health Chief Business Officer and Co-founder Nasha Fitter. Citizen Health A version of this story first appeared in the CNBC Cures newsletter. Click here to sign up. When Nasha Fitter’s youngest daughter was diagnosed with FOXG1 syndrome in 2017, a rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorder, she faced a challenge…
Boxes of medication are seen on the shelves of the Keencare pharmacy, a member of the Green Light Group, on September 19, 2024 in London, England. Leon Neal | Getty Images News | Getty Images Once the go-to location for global drugmakers, Europe is now being squeezed by President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade and drug-pricing…
Revolution Medicines could be on the cusp of a breakthrough. The company expects to soon release results from a Phase 3 trial of its experimental drug that could become the first targeted treatment for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest of the major cancers. Just 13% of people with pancreatic cancer live five years after they’re diagnosed,…
After years of trying to lose weight “the right way,” Jane Zuckerman realized that “putting in the work just wasn’t enough.” Zuckerman, a 32-year-old data analyst based in Washington, D.C., said she lost 90 pounds in college and spent years cycling through nutritionists, therapy and strict routines — only to find herself at her heaviest…
The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland, Nov. 4, 2009. Jason Reed | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration in recent weeks said it would decline to clarify laws that ban the foreign importation of prescription medicines, despite growing evidence of the overseas schemes. A class of businesses called…
Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz speaks during an event sponsored by the Action for Progress Coalition, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 2, 2026. Al Drago | Reuters The Trump administration on Monday finalized a 2027 payment rate increase to privately run Medicare plans that…
