Pfizer CEO plans for soaring consumer market for obesity drugs akin to Viagra [Yahoo! Finance]
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business it saw after it launched erectile dysfunction drug ?Viagra in 1998, CEO Albert Bourla said on Monday. Bourla said that even when the drugmaker was ?negotiating its purchase of weight-loss drugmaker Metsera, initially announced in September 2025, Pfizer did not expect the cash-pay market for obesity drugs ?currently dominated by Eli Lilly and Co and Novo Nordisk to get so big, so fast. "Both Lilly and Novo presented their sales and had significant sales outside the reimbursement system. Basically, outside the U.S., we were calculating very limited sales," Bourla said, speaking to a group of reporters during the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. "Now ?we see that this operates almost like ?Viagra, where people were willing to pay and buy it, although it was not reimbursed at all." Pfizer developed and sold Viagra, which is now sold mostly as a ?generic drug, for years, but spun off the business that controls the brand in 2020. Pfizer has said it does
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