In this article NVO NVO LLY Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Novo Nordisk is launching its weight loss pill Wegovy in the United Arab Emirates, the Danish drugmaker said Wednesday, marking its first launch outside the U.S. market. Novo's approach will be guided by patient demand, the readiness of healthcare professionals, and the strength of healthcare and telehealth infrastructure,...
In this article NVO NVO LLY Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Novo Nordisk is launching its weight loss pill Wegovy in the United Arab Emirates, the Danish drugmaker said Wednesday, marking its first launch outside the U.S. market. Novo's approach will be guided by patient demand, the readiness of healthcare professionals, and the strength of healthcare and telehealth infrastructure, said Emil Kongshøj Larsen, executive vice president, International Operations. "The UAE has demonstrated strong momentum across all of these areas, and we look forward to bringing Wegovy pill to additional select countries in the coming months," he said. The country's regulator, the Emirates Drug Establishment, approved the Wegovy pill for weight management and reducing the risk of cardiovascular events in high-risk patients earlier this week. Larsen told CNBC last month that Novo was "all in" on launching the Wegovy pill in overseas markets, and that it was a "major opportunity." Weight-loss wars go global as Novo Nordisk bets big on its Wegovy pill The UAE launch comes as Novo has been battling a declining share of the weight-loss drug market, which analysts expect could exceed $100 billion by 2030. While Novo was first in launching the so-called GLP-1 drugs for obesity, Lilly's Mounjaro overtook Novo's Ozempic as the best-selling GLP-1 in the second quarter of 2025. The U.S. still accounts for more than half of sales for both Novo and its chief rival, Eli Lilly , which recently launched its own weight-loss pill, Foundayo. Novo announced alongside its first-quarter earnings in early May that, pending approvals, it would launch the pill in certain markets outside the U.S. in the second half of 2026, without naming specific markets. Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
Employees across industries continue to adopt AI tools at a rapid rate, yet the technology’s impact on productivity and efficiency is uneven and muddled, according to a new study. Some 74% of white-collar workers with no managerial duties count themselves as regular users of artificial intelligence, a 23 percentage point increase from a year earlier, according to Boston Consulting Group Inc. ’s la...
Employees across industries continue to adopt AI tools at a rapid rate, yet the technology’s impact on productivity and efficiency is uneven and muddled, according to a new study. Some 74% of white-collar workers with no managerial duties count themselves as regular users of artificial intelligence, a 23 percentage point increase from a year earlier, according to Boston Consulting Group Inc. ’s latest AI at Work report. But many enterprises struggle to convert AI-driven efficiency gains into measurable value, BCG said. More than 40% of the regular AI users among the white-collar workers not involved in management reported saving a full work day or more per week from using such tools. Still, leaders and organizations are yet to learn how to derive value from the saved time, BCG said. “Everyone is talking about AI replacing work, but it is in fact really about rethinking the human value-add inside,” said BCG’s Vinciane Beauchene, one of the report’s authors. “This is the role of leaders.” The findings belie the premise that companies will automatically boost productivity through AI — raising questions about the hundreds of billions of dollars in investment across the planet. The study also suggests that while AI is changing the nature of work, the change is not all positive. Nearly half the respondents said they spend more time managing and directing AI than doing the work itself. And while about two-thirds of regular AI users said the technology has improved job satisfaction, about 41% said it had increased cognitive load. That’s creating what the authors called a “joy paradox,” where AI makes work better and harder at the same time. “The joy equation rewrites itself within a year of using AI,” said BCG’s Sylvain Duranton , another co-author of the report. “Early on, AI’s novelty and cognitive stretch fuel enjoyment, but that ‘AI honeymoon’ fades without strategic clarity.” For its study, BCG surveyed nearly 12,000 workers across industries in 14 countries and region...
Howells puts in a strong turn as Henry Paget, a Victorian marquess who blows his inheritance on hosting wild parties and staging gender-defying theatrical performances Playing the shy Colin in Russell T Davies’s 2021 TV drama It’s a Sin, Callum Scott Howells had to be the humble caterpillar compared to Olly Alexander’s extravagant butterfly. But now Howells gets an upgrade to full butterfly status...
Howells puts in a strong turn as Henry Paget, a Victorian marquess who blows his inheritance on hosting wild parties and staging gender-defying theatrical performances Playing the shy Colin in Russell T Davies’s 2021 TV drama It’s a Sin, Callum Scott Howells had to be the humble caterpillar compared to Olly Alexander’s extravagant butterfly. But now Howells gets an upgrade to full butterfly status in this high-spirited and good-humoured drama from screenwriter Lisa Baker and director Celyn Jones, reclaiming a forgotten chapter in queer Victorian history. With a moustache resembling that of Proust, Howells amusingly plays the flamboyant aristocrat Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey , a delicate consumptive and aesthete who, in the late 19th century, blew his vast inheritance on colossal private theatricals, wild parties and jaw-dropping performances in which he would appear in gender-challenging costumes, including a diaphanous veil he wore as a “butterfly dancer”. He caused scandal with his behaviour and apparently unconsummated marriage to first cousin Lily (Ruby Stokes), whose attitude to him here is perhaps more affectionate and tolerant than it was in real life. Continue reading...
The critic’s memoir’s is a portrait in determination to go against the grain and ‘pursue a life in words and ideas’ Brian Dillon lost his parents early, his mother when he was 16, his father at 21. He writes of them in passing here, as he did in his first book, In the Dark Room , but with little overt display of grief. Narrated in the third person, with young Dillon a removed he rather than an emo...
The critic’s memoir’s is a portrait in determination to go against the grain and ‘pursue a life in words and ideas’ Brian Dillon lost his parents early, his mother when he was 16, his father at 21. He writes of them in passing here, as he did in his first book, In the Dark Room , but with little overt display of grief. Narrated in the third person, with young Dillon a removed he rather than an emotionally manipulative I , this isn’t a weepy orphanhood memoir. It describes instead his awkward Dublin education, as he struggles to carve out an identity for himself and to accommodate his passion for avant garde music and literature within academe. He grows up surrounded by the books acquired by his father, who left school early and went to university late. He reads them avidly and adds to them with library borrowings and purchases of his own. But, to begin with, his greater attachment is to music magazines and to David Bowie, whose excitingly ambivalent sexuality echoes his own. His father speaks of duty – to homework, weekly mass and getting a decent job. But his commitment is to jouissance , if only he can find it. Continue reading...
A county-level Communist Party chief in China’s central Shanxi province was put under disciplinary review, 11 days after a deadly gas explosion at a local mine killed 82 people and left two missing. Zhao Yongjin, party secretary of Qinyuan county in Changzhi, Shanxi, was “suspected of serious violations of discipline and law”, the Shanxi provincial discipline inspection and supervisory commission,...
A county-level Communist Party chief in China’s central Shanxi province was put under disciplinary review, 11 days after a deadly gas explosion at a local mine killed 82 people and left two missing. Zhao Yongjin, party secretary of Qinyuan county in Changzhi, Shanxi, was “suspected of serious violations of discipline and law”, the Shanxi provincial discipline inspection and supervisory commission, an anti-corruption watchdog, announced on Tuesday night. The blast took place at the Liushenyu Coal...