Emma Court

The last time there was this much hype over a new drug was for Viagra, which was approved in 1998. Yet hurdles remain, when it comes to the ability of patients to access weight loss and anti-diabetes injectables like Zepbound and Wegovy: These drugs cost a lot, insurance coverage is spotty, and patients may need to take them indefinitely to avoid regaining weight.

Weight-loss injectables like Zepbound are making as big of a splash as Viagra, if not bigger. What you need to know about the ‘miracle drugs’

By Emma Court, Madison Muller, and others

Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen, chief executive officer of Novo Nordisk, speaks during an interview in New York, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Two more factories will begin producing Novo Nordisk A/S’s obesity medication Wegovy next year after manufacturing issues and high demand left the drug in short supply, Jorgensen said. Photographer: Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Yet another weight loss drug is now hard to get as high demand creates major shortages

By Emma Court, Madison Muller, and others

Michael Saucedo, age 9, showed his plate of chicken strips, chocolate milk, fruit cup, oranges and wheat bread, at Russell Cave Elementary School in Lexington, Ky., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The chicken strips are fried before arriving at the school, then are reheated using a steam and convection oven. Debate in Washington over a controversial school lunch waiver has spread into the Bluegrass State, where proponents say the innocuous proposal helps rural schools, and which critics argue threatens years of work combating one of the nationÕs largest childhood obesity rates. The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on an appropriations bill that includes the waiver provision. (Pablo Alcala/Lexington Herald-Leader/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Weight-loss surgery soars among adolescents as doctors take a more aggressive approach to treating obesity: ‘Why should we wait?’

By Ilena Peng, Emma Court, and others

obese fat man preparing Semaglutide Ozempic injection control blood sugar levels

Health startup Noom is now adding Ozempic and other weight loss injectables to its offerings, says ‘outcomes are so much better’

By Emma Court and Bloomberg

Ned Lamont, governor of Connecticut, smiles during a Bloomberg Television/Radio interview at the Greenwich Economic Forum (GEF) in Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. The GEF brings together leaders in global finance, business, media and government for global investment forums to discuss the economic implications of the defining issues of our times. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The 50,000 New Yorkers who moved to Connecticut aren’t leaving anytime soon, governor says

By Emma Court and Bloomberg

FAIRHAVEN, MA – OCTOBER 16: Southcoast Health material and distribution coordinator Anna Raposo holds an N95 mask at their big warehouse of PPE in Fairhaven, MA on Oct. 16, 2020. Southcoast Health has a big supply of Personal Protective Equipment in preparation for the second wave of COVID-19 that is already upon the hospitals. The facility has a variety of PPE, including hand sanitizer, masks, and other needed items. (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Demand for N95 and KN95 masks is rising as experts say it’s time to ‘up your mask game’

By Carey Goldberg, Emma Court, and others

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – OCTOBER 07: In this photo illustration a person displays the use of a COVID-19 rapid antigen test kit at home on October 07, 2021 in Auckland, New Zealand. A pilot scheme for the use of rapid antigen testing will begin this week in the private sector, as businesses lobby for their approval for use as a screening tool to protect critical worksites. Rapid antigen testing not yet been approved for use in New Zealand beyond a small scheme at Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital. The tests will also be used within the next few days at Auckland City and North Shore hospitals, and as a point-of-arrival test in the self-isolation pilots for business travellers returning to New Zealand. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

New Hampshire becomes the first state to offer free at-home rapid COVID tests to all as cases surge

By Carey Goldberg, Emma Court, and others

This picture taken on December 21, 2020 shows COVID-19 coronavirus home test units that have been granted an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), at the production facility of Australian digital diagnostics company Ellume in Brisbane. – Ellume’s product delivers results in just 15 minutes and will soon be available over the counter in pharmacies across the country worst-hit by the pandemic. (Photo by Patrick HAMILTON / AFP) / To go with AFP story Health-virus-test-Australia-US, FOCUS by Holly Robertson (Photo by PATRICK HAMILTON/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)

Ellume recalls 2 million at-home COVID-19 tests due to false positive risk

By Emma Court and Bloomberg

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 18: The American flag on top of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, near the White House, flies at half staff, following the death of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, on October 18, 2021 in Washington, DC. Powell, 84, died Monday due to complications from Covid-19. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Colin Powell died from breakthrough COVID complications. But such deaths are still rare

By Emma Court and Bloomberg

Regeneron antibody COVID treatment

Biden administration moves to prevent shortage of COVID-19 antibody treatments

By Riley Griffin, Emma Court, and others

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JULY 30: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Clinicians work while caring for COVID-19 patients in the improvised COVID-19 unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills neighborhood on July 30, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. The COVID-19 unit has been set up again to attend to a rise in COVID patients in a section of the hospital normally used for other purposes. The hospital had just five COVID patients last week but now is treating more than 25 amid a rise in COVID cases and hospitalizations in Southern California as the Delta variant continues to spread. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Thanks to the Delta variant, the threshold for herd immunity is now even higher

By Emma Court and Bloomberg

VENICE, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 28: People walk along the Venice Beach boardwalk on April 28, 2021 in Venice, California. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) issued new guidelines stating that fully vaccinated people do not need to wear masks outdoors, except in crowded locations. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

CDC: Fully vaccinated Americans no longer have to wear a mask or socially distance in most places

By Josh Wingrove, Emma Court, and others

NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 06: A man wears a double mask as he walks in Times Square on April 6, 2020 in New York City. The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. is approaching 10,000. (Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images)

New CDC guidance: Start double masking with cloth and medical masks

By Emma Court and Bloomberg

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE – DECEMBER 08: Dr. Rochelle Walensky, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to head the Centers for Disease Control, speaks during a news conference at the Queen Theater December 08, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. With the novel coronavirus pandemic continuing to ravage the country with daily records for infections and deaths, members of Biden’s health team said they will make fighting COVID-19 the priority. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

CDC: Teachers don’t need vaccines for schools to reopen safely

By Emma Court and Bloomberg

A Nepalese Health personnel in protective gear ready for a coronavirus Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test in Kathmandu, Nepal on Tuesday, May 19, 2020.

FDA approves first at-home, over-the-counter COVID test

By Emma Court and Bloomberg