Eli Lilly will raise the UK list price of its weight-loss treatment Mounjaro by up to 170%, it said on Thursday, amid a White House push to get drugmakers to raise medicine prices in Europe to allow for price cuts in the United States.

Eli Lilly's new oral GLP-1 medication orforglipron produced an average weight loss of 12.4% (27.3 pounds) in clinical trials. The weight loss pill also significantly improved heart health markers like cholesterol and blood pressure.

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