(Oona Zenda/KFF Health News) A professional in-home caregiver lost her coverage for Zepbound. She soon realized getting it back was not straightforward. “I was like: ‘What am I going to do? Hopefully I can just continue keeping this weight off.’” — Deborah Finley, 50, of Lodi, California Deborah Finley, 50, of Lodi, California, said her weight started to worry her during the early days of covid. That’s when she noticed a lot of the people who were […]

Eli Lilly on Thursday said its next-generation drug cleared a crucial late-stage trial in patients with obesity, delivering significant weight loss across doses.  The results bring Lilly one step closer to filing for approval of the weekly injection, called retatrutide, which works differently from existing shots and pills from both Lilly and Novo Nordisk. It also appears to be more effective than those options. The highest dose of retatrutide helped patients lose 28.3% of their weight — […]

Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists were touted as “breakthrough” drugs in 2023 — and their popularity has soared since.  More than 4 million items of tirzepatide and semaglutide were dispensed on the NHS in England in 2025/2026​​1​, while around 2.5 million people each month accessed GLP-1s privately at the end of 2025, according to James Kingsland, chair of the Digital Clinical Excellence (DiCE) network of primary care digital health providers.  According to a YouGov poll commissioned by the National Pharmacy Association, an estimated […]