• January 16 2026
  Interview

  Undercutting NHS pricing system to appease Trump would be ‘huge backwards step’ for medicines watchdog

  Jonathan Benger tells FT that health service payments should not rise for years to come

  
• January 5 2026
  Novo Nordisk launches US price war over weight-loss pills

  Lowest doses of Wegovy in oral form will start at $149 a month for American users until April

  
• December 11 2025
  National Health Service

  UK pledges to spend extra £1.5bn on NHS medicines as part of Trump tariff deal

  Outlay over next 3 years is in return for the US exempting British pharmaceutical imports from tariffs

  
• December 2 2025
  FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

  Swiss prosecutors file charges against Credit Suisse and UBS

  Banks accused of organisational ‘deficiencies’ relating to Mozambique ‘tuna bonds’ scandal

  
• December 1 2025
  National Health Service

  NHS to increase medicines spending to avoid threatened Trump tariffs

  UK government will make it easier for drugs to be approved for use in order to secure carve-out from import levies

  
• November 26 2025
  Trump administration slashes Medicare price for Ozempic and Wegovy

  US negotiates 71% reduction of Novo Nordisk’s obesity drugs for elderly Americans on government health insurance

  
• November 14 2025
  Merck & Co Inc

  Merck agrees $9.2bn deal for flu-prevention biotech Cidara

  Bidding war goes down to wire for company whose lead drug is potential alternative to vaccines for vulnerable patients

  
• November 12 2025
  NHS medicines budget should not rise with inflation, says drug approval body

  Comments by head of Nice come as ministers offer to increase spending to appease pharma groups and Donald Trump

  
• November 6 2025
  US to slash prices of obesity drugs offered on Trump website

  White House’s landmark deal with Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly will cut costs from at least $1,000 to about $350

  
• November 6 2025
  Mergers & Acquisitions

  Novo Nordisk challenges Pfizer to raise offer for obesity biotech

  Danish company vies with US drugmaker for control of Metsera as they seek edge in growing market for weight-loss drugs

  
• November 4 2025
  Eli Lilly & Co

  Eli Lilly calls on Europe to ditch clawback taxes on drugmakers

  US pharma group says region’s use of ‘one-way insurance system’ to keep down prices is not fair on the industry

  
• October 29 2025
  US companies

  US set to speed up approval for some generic drugs in blow to Big Pharma

  Move is latest broadside by Trump administration against pharmaceuticals industry that fought to derail changes

  
• October 22 2025
  Pharmaceuticals sector

  US pharma price probe raises threat of new drug tariffs

  Trump administration plans trade assault in attempt to drive down cost of medicines including weight-loss pills

  
• October 17 2025
  UK closes in on drug pricing deal with White House

  NHS likely to pay billions more for some medicines in exchange for lower tariffs on British pharma exports

  
• October 17 2025
  Novo Nordisk AS

  Novo Nordisk shares slide as Trump vows to cut Ozempic price

  US administration in negotiations over cost of Danish group’s best-selling weight loss drug

  
• October 15 2025
  Competition & Markets Authority

  UK vets face price caps after competition review

  Watchdog finds regulatory system is ‘not fit for purpose’ but stops short of proposing structural reform of sector

  
• October 10 2025
  AstraZeneca strikes deal to lower drug costs in exchange for tariff reprieve

  Chief executive Pascal Soriot applauds the deal with Donald Trump as ‘a big win’ for US patients

  
• October 9 2025
  ExplainerPharmaceuticals sector

  What Pfizer’s deal with Trump means for global drug pricing

  Investors are more hopeful about the pharma industry’s chances of mitigating US threats

  
• October 8 2025
  UK government prepared to pay more for drugs bought by NHS

  Officials have briefed Trump administration on proposal to pay up to 25% more for medicines

  
• September 30 2025
  Pharmaceuticals sector

  US announces direct-to-consumer ‘TrumpRx’ drug sales programme

  Plan will allow people to buy prescriptions at discounted prices negotiated by government

  
• September 26 2025
  UK politics

  UK to offer to pay more for drugs to placate Trump and pharma groups

  Prime minister’s chief business adviser Varun Chandra due to hold talks in Washington next week

  
• September 26 2025
  Lex

  UK should brace for more expensive medicines

  Drugmakers have reason to take a tough stance against British negotiators

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• September 26 2025
  Moral Money

  Martin Shkreli’s ‘ugly, dirty truth’ looms over UK drug pricing backlash

  Pharmaceutical companies fight to protect margins as Trump attacks international pricing disparity

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• September 24 2025
  Pharmaceuticals sector

  UK wants to end pricing feud with drugs companies, says science minister

  Government prepared to pay more for medicines, says Lord Patrick Vallance

  
• September 23 2025
  Eli Lilly boss brands UK ‘worst country in Europe’ for cheap drug prices

  Dave Ricks says Britain will miss out on medicines and future investment unless it pays more

  

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