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Pharmaceuticals News 11 October 2025 - 17 October 2025

Weight-Loss Drug Mania Shook Markets—Now Hims & Hers Bets on a Menopause Care Boom

Weight-Loss Drug Mania Shook Markets—Now Hims & Hers Bets on a Menopause Care Boom

Menopause Launch Sparks Surge in HIMS Stock Hims & Hers’ expansion into menopause care was greeted with enthusiasm in the market. On October 15, the San Francisco–based telehealth provider announced it is now offering affordable treatment plans for women in perimenopause and menopause via its Hers platform businesswire.com businesswire.com. The move adds a new specialty to Hers, which already serves over 500,000 women subscribers businesswire.com. By connecting patients with providers trained in menopause care, Hims & Hers aims to fill a long-neglected gap in women’s health. “Women have been navigating an outdated healthcare system that wasn’t designed for them for
17 October 2025
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Biotech Breakthrough: Rani Therapeutics (RANI) Stock Skyrockets on $1B Deal – What Investors Need to Know

Biotech Breakthrough: Rani Therapeutics (RANI) Stock Skyrockets on $1B Deal – What Investors Need to Know

RANI Stock Price Explodes on Deal News Rani Therapeutics’ stock price skyrocketed on Friday, Oct. 17, after the company unveiled a major partnership and funding news. In pre-market trade, RANI jumped about 150% and continued to rally after the market open tipranks.com. The stock, which had closed at just $0.47 the prior day, briefly hit approximately $1.37 per share – nearly a 3× gain in value google.com. By midday, shares were still trading around the $1.30 level, up almost +180% on the day. This stunning one-day move snapped RANI out of penny-stock territory and back above the Nasdaq’s $1 minimum
17 October 2025
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Big Pharma’s Billion-Dollar Bet: Inside Eli Lilly’s $5B Virginia Factory and America’s New Drug Manufacturing Boom

Eli Lilly (LLY) Surges on Obesity Drug Boom and Alzheimer’s Breakthroughs – Is $1,000 Next?

LLY Stock Skyrockets, Then Dips on Pricing Jitters Eli Lilly’s stock has been on a tear in 2025, powered by optimism around its new drug innovations. Shares surged dramatically at the start of October – leaping from about $726 at the end of September to as high as $832 by October 1 ts2.tech. This double-digit jump in just days far outpaced the broader market and reflected euphoric sentiment toward Lilly’s growth prospects ts2.tech. Analysts attributed the rally to a perfect storm of positive news: strong recent earnings, insider buying, and fresh research fueling excitement about Lilly’s obesity and Alzheimer’s franchises
17 October 2025
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Novo Nordisk’s $5.2 Billion Bet to Reverse Fatty Liver Disease – Game-Changer or Big Gamble?

Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Crown at Risk? NVO Stock Slumps Amid Surprise Deals – What’s Next

NVO Stock Slides as Weight-Loss Hype Cools Novo Nordisk’s stock has been on a wild ride. After becoming Europe’s most valuable company in 2022–2023 on the back of its smash-hit obesity drug Wegovy, the Danish pharma giant has seen its fortunes reverse sharply in 2025. As of October 17, NVO shares trade in the mid-$50s – down nearly 50% from January levels reuters.com reuters.com and miles below the late-2024 peak (when Novo’s market cap neared $650 B) reuters.com reuters.com. What happened? In short, the once-unbounded GLP-1 weight-loss boom has hit reality. Several factors have converged to deflate Novo’s valuation. Competition has
17 October 2025
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Praxis (PRAX) Stock Skyrockets 180% on Game-Changing Tremor Drug Trial; Analysts See ‘Blockbuster’ Upside

Praxis (PRAX) Stock Skyrockets 180% on Game-Changing Tremor Drug Trial; Analysts See ‘Blockbuster’ Upside

PRAX Stock Soars on Historic Trial Win Praxis Precision Medicines stock has seen a record-breaking spike in recent days after announcing landmark clinical trial results. On October 16, PRAX shares closed at $162.71, up about 183% in a single session ts2.tech ts2.tech. The stock, which had closed at $57.35 the day prior, more than tripled to reach new 52-week highs ts2.tech. Intra-day, PRAX briefly touched as high as $205 as enthusiasm peaked google.com. By midday Thursday, the company was on track to add roughly $2.7 billion to its market capitalization if gains held ts2.tech – catapulting Praxis’s valuation from around $1 billion
17 October 2025
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Scienture (SCNX) Stock Skyrockets on New FDA-Approved Blood Pressure Drug Launch

Scienture (SCNX) Stock Skyrockets on New FDA-Approved Blood Pressure Drug Launch

SCNX Stock Climbs on Arbli Launch Pills and a daily pill organizer: Arbli’s liquid formulation helps patients (especially children/elderly) who can’t swallow tablets. Scienture’s stock jumped sharply on Oct. 16 after the company formally launched Arbli™ in the U.S. market. In a GlobeNewswire press release that morning, Scienture announced that Arbli™ is now shipping through major pharmaceutical wholesalers nationwide globenewswire.com. Arbli is the first FDA-approved oral liquid form of losartan, a top-selling blood pressure drug. The launch news and accompanying marketing caused traders to bid up SCNX: one trader wrote that shares moved “from yesterday’s close around 72 cents to
16 October 2025
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Adaptimmune (ADAP) Sees Wild Stock Surge Amid Cash Crunch – Biotech Turnaround or Last Gasp?

Adaptimmune (ADAP) Sees Wild Stock Surge Amid Cash Crunch – Biotech Turnaround or Last Gasp?

Stock Price Rollercoaster in 2025 Adaptimmune’s stock has been on a wild ride this year, with extreme price swings in recent weeks grabbing headlines. After languishing in penny-stock territory for months, ADAP suddenly caught fire in late September 2025. On September 19, shares opened at a mere $0.08 but skyrocketed 98% by day’s end to $0.16, then jumped another 30% after-hours to ~$0.20 ts2.tech. This stunning one-day move – without any company-specific catalyst – was accompanied by an enormous volume of 705+ million shares traded (versus ~60 million on an average day) ts2.tech. Market observers noted Adaptimmune as one of
16 October 2025
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Menopause Launch Sends Hims & Hers (HIMS) Stock Soaring – What’s Next?

Menopause Launch Sends Hims & Hers (HIMS) Stock Soaring – What’s Next?

Figure: Hims & Hers markets a broad telehealth platform for men’s and women’s health ts2.tech. Its stock has surged with the boom in telehealth and weight-loss treatments. Women’s Health Expansion Sparks Rally On Oct. 15, Hims & Hers stunned the market by launching a dedicated menopause/perimenopause care program on its “Hers” telehealth platform. The company said the new service would connect women with personalized hormone therapies (estradiol, progesterone, etc.) to ease symptoms like hot flashes and sleep issues ts2.tech. This push into a historically underserved sector (roughly 1.3 million U.S. women enter menopause each year) met eager investor demand. As
16 October 2025
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AbbVie Stock Skyrocketing? Analysts Say This $230 Biotech Giant Is Just Getting Started

AbbVie Stock Skyrocketing? Analysts Say This $230 Biotech Giant Is Just Getting Started

Stock Performance & Recent Trends AbbVie’s stock closed at $230.88 on Oct. 10, 2025 marketbeat.com. Over the prior five trading days it moved modestly: Oct. 7: $232.83; Oct. 8: $231.24; Oct. 9: $230.69; Oct. 10: $230.50 investing.com. Notably, on Sept. 30 ABBV hit a 52-week high around $244.8, buoyed by regulatory filings and a sector-wide rally. From that late-September peak it has pulled back into the low-$230s as investors digest upcoming FDA news. On Oct. 1 the entire pharma sector rallied (+5% in Europe) after Pfizer announced a U.S. drug-pricing deal reuters.com; AbbVie’s shares jumped ~6–8% that day as well. Technicals (50-day MA ≈ $214; 200-day
11 October 2025
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AstraZeneca (AZN) Stock Skyrockets: $50B U.S. Gamble, Trump Pricing Deal & Analyst Forecasts

AstraZeneca (AZN) Stock Skyrockets: $50B U.S. Gamble, Trump Pricing Deal & Analyst Forecasts

Company Background AstraZeneca PLC is a leading Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical giant specializing in oncology, respiratory, cardiovascular/metabolic, and rare disease medicines marketbeat.com astrazeneca.com. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, it maintains primary listings on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stockholm, with secondary ADR trading in the U.S. astrazeneca.com. The company was formed in 1999 by merging Sweden’s Astra AB and the UK’s Zeneca. Its 2024 revenues were $54.07 billion astrazeneca.com, driven by top-selling drugs like Tagrisso (lung cancer), Lynparza (ovarian cancer), Farxiga (diabetes), and Symbicort (asthma) marketbeat.com. In its 2024 Annual Report, AZN describes itself as “a global, science-led, patient-focused pharmaceutical business” and targets
11 October 2025
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Merck (MRK) Stock Could Skyrocket: Key Drug Approvals & Analyst Targets Unveiled

Merck (MRK) Stock Could Skyrocket: Key Drug Approvals & Analyst Targets Unveiled

Metric Merck (MRK) Last Price (10/10/25) $86.02 marketbeat.com Market Cap $215B marketbeat.com P/E (TTM) ~13× marketbeat.com Yield 3.8% marketbeat.com 52-Week Range $73.31 – $111.58 marketbeat.com YTD Total Return -11.07% financecharts.com Q2 2025 Sales $15.8B investing.com 2024 Sales $64.2B merck.com 2024 R&D Spend $17.9B merck.com Analyst PT (avg) $104 (12-mo) marketbeat.com Consensus Rating Hold marketbeat.com Company Overview Merck & Co. (MRK, called MSD outside North America) is a global healthcare company (75,000 employees merck.com) organized in Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines and Animal Health. It focuses on oncology/immunology, infectious disease (including vaccines), cardio-metabolic, and hospital specialty medicines merck.com. Its blockbuster product KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) – a PD-1 checkpoint
11 October 2025
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Protagonist Therapeutics: Small Biotech Skyrockets on Buyout Buzz & Breakthrough Trials

Protagonist Therapeutics: Small Biotech Skyrockets on Buyout Buzz & Breakthrough Trials

Company Overview Protagonist Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharma company leveraging peptide technology to create new medicines for rare hematologic conditions and prevalent immunological diseases protagonist-inc.com. Founded in 2008, Protagonist has built its identity around engineered peptide drugs – a niche between small molecules and antibodies – to tackle challenging targets with oral or injectable therapies. The company’s mission centers on “developing groundbreaking new medicines to treat both rare and prevalent diseases” using its proprietary peptide platform protagonist-inc.com. This focus has led to a pipeline addressing blood cancers/disorders and inflammatory bowel and skin diseases, where current treatments are inadequate. Leadership &
11 October 2025
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