{"id":124902,"date":"2025-11-06T11:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/124902\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:52:09","slug":"weight-loss-wars-10bn-hostile-battle-pits-pfizer-against-novo-nordisk-financial-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/124902\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight-loss wars: $10bn hostile battle pits Pfizer against Novo Nordisk &#8211; Financial Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMicEFVX3lxTE5DY1M2SDlzQ1d5bHItRGNuWllDVjRUNGhibWlBaE1xSldQc2M1ZzJDVS1WRjZjZW5zekwwcTNpOEJ2aUhGbEt6X1AybVR2bThUX0RsYWlfbFJWcGlucERYSmExSTFpUkExNU9TY1NRU3c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Weight-loss wars: $10bn hostile battle pits Pfizer against Novo Nordisk<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Financial Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimwFBVV95cUxNOU4zVTFyU1dEZUtROW9OTHdnWUhFRmRJcjRQRDlETW1qV2hZYlhkd1g0UGxlcW05QVpSVy1rNmVPR0V4OHZCeF90bW91dHB6Z1cyY1Ztbm0zbmxERGVqSXI0bVBtTTlQOGZaNnI4QVJvR3pianZQT1lqeWFVZmwxR3FYenJPbHpTZGV1SGNtaDdLWjVLOXFlcUZCcw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Novo Nordisk, Pfizer sweeten bid for Metsera as bidding war heats up<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiggFBVV95cUxQcmtMelpUcjAtTzhQejdTdHBrSmlSRU05NTdRZS1fdzlCcVZVRXRfMk9jcnFraS0xbUx6ckRWXzZ4MU5jbkZhVXVNY0JfVTBLZVNtVklTQU85R0F5VW0tUk1rUG5YMW9EZEVPQkJvRGU4Mk9COGRMMy02N0g3N3VHaTFn0gGHAUFVX3lxTE91SGdWM0ZJeDB2X0V3MFhPQVpRU0t5NzV2YnB2WjlFLWZYVktzVDlURTF5aXNIaUJpQUZ3WU1lYVh0MVFTZW1vWk5YVWhPZkNSbW1zYU9peXZTQXNBZEs1SjVpZlphTGxJb1JmSkEwMjY5ZE9VNmd1RDRnandsb1pIUHNLdGE4VQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Metsera says Novo Nordisk\u2019s new up to $10 billion bid for obesity drugmaker is \u2018superior\u2019 to revised Pfizer offer<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CNBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimgFBVV95cUxQanplcl9sNHctSHpXSkE2ZlhkUnJUWXVZakZ3bUVDaDhyaTZLR243NzN1STE1RnNjVGZYbzFsMElLajE5T2FHTzF5M0lndm9GT2VLWWN5OE9PNUNPTTJWWU1CZHZvVG1lcHprN1E4V1R4UnJpRlJ6eTY3NG5veUxpWVVJYkFTdkxrbVZRc2RQVEIyRUg4a2xJVndR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pfizer Addresses Proposal for Metsera<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Business Wire<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiuwFBVV95cUxNbVJWRXpYQnVUMmRNQWdpcVhidkIyVU96TjFsN2RJVWd3M1ZhclFJY05YSGliUEFJX3BHenVrd21aNzRKbWpCYWNjR0N2aUNwaUp5YWplWE85MmJJRHJTRWFMb3VWYk5QOU5DRUNQT0xtOVBWblBCbG12X25kVVpiYzVFdzRSYUlpOVp0eTdnY29EenRJTndKM0xkX0U4c05hWmQxTkJPSnJVak05ZnhUUzh3SFo2RFAycE4w?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Novo makes bombshell $6.5B counteroffer to Pfizer&#8217;s acquisition of obesity biotech Metsera<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Fierce Biotech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weight-loss wars: $10bn hostile battle pits Pfizer against Novo Nordisk&nbsp;&nbsp;Financial TimesNovo Nordisk, Pfizer sweeten bid for Metsera as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-124902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}