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Can Wellness Be the New Nightlife?

With moonlight yoga and spirit-free bars, party hotspots like London’s Tramp or the new Soho Farmhouse Ibiza are repositioning themselves as wellness clubs for their increasingly health-focussed clientele.

Can Wellness Be the New Nightlife?

With moonlight yoga and spirit-free bars, party hotspots like London’s Tramp or the new Soho Farmhouse Ibiza are repositioning themselves as wellness clubs for their increasingly health-focussed clientele.


The GLP-1 Arms Race, Explained

The pharmaceutical boom in weight-loss drugs has put companies like Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly in ever-fiercer competition. Now more heavyweights, like Pfizer and Astrazeneca, are entering the ring. Who will come out on top?

The GLP-1 Arms Race, Explained

The pharmaceutical boom in weight-loss drugs has put companies like Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly in ever-fiercer competition. Now more heavyweights, like Pfizer and Astrazeneca, are entering the ring. Who will come out on top?


Peloton Kicks Off Turnaround with Hardware, AI Product Launch

In the years since the pandemic lockdown, the New York-based fitness company has struggled with sales declines as more people have returned to regularly exercising outdoors and in gyms.

Peloton Kicks Off Turnaround with Hardware, AI Product Launch

In the years since the pandemic lockdown, the New York-based fitness company has struggled with sales declines as more people have returned to regularly exercising outdoors and in gyms.


Oura Ring Maker to Become $11 Billion Company With Latest Raise

The Finnish Oura health and fitness ring maker is raising $875 million in a new Series E financing round valuing it around $10.9 billion, Bloomberg reported.

Oura Ring Maker to Become $11 Billion Company With Latest Raise

The Finnish Oura health and fitness ring maker is raising $875 million in a new Series E financing round valuing it around $10.9 billion, Bloomberg reported.


At Wellness Resorts, Ozempic Becomes Part of the Menu

GLP-1s could have wiped out weight-loss retreats. Instead, they’re reinvigorating them.

At Wellness Resorts, Ozempic Becomes Part of the Menu

GLP-1s could have wiped out weight-loss retreats. Instead, they’re reinvigorating them.


Opinion: How ‘Optimisation’ Hijacked Men’s Wellness

We solved the problem of getting men into wellness. Now we have the bigger problem of what we’ve turned them into, writes meditation teacher Manoj Dias.

Opinion: How ‘Optimisation’ Hijacked Men’s Wellness

We solved the problem of getting men into wellness. Now we have the bigger problem of what we’ve turned them into, writes meditation teacher Manoj Dias.


WeightWatchers Bets on Community Driving Growth in the GLP-1 Era

The weight loss programme is leaning into its strengths with more in-person clinics and deeper connection with members, chief executive officer Tara Comonte told Bloomberg reporters on Tuesday.

WeightWatchers Bets on Community Driving Growth in the GLP-1 Era

The weight loss programme is leaning into its strengths with more in-person clinics and deeper connection with members, chief executive officer Tara Comonte told Bloomberg reporters on Tuesday.


GLP-1 Pills Will Be Priced Similarly to Injections, Wall Street Predicts

US prices for obesity-treatment pills that Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk aim to launch next year will likely be on par with their weight-loss injections, analysts and investors say.

GLP-1 Pills Will Be Priced Similarly to Injections, Wall Street Predicts

US prices for obesity-treatment pills that Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk aim to launch next year will likely be on par with their weight-loss injections, analysts and investors say.


The Latest Boom in Medical Tourism: Male Leg Lengthening

At clinics like 'Wanna Be Taller' in Turkey, male patients are arriving in droves from all over the world to endure an expensive, bone-breaking procedure promising to increase their height as much as nine centimeters.

The Latest Boom in Medical Tourism: Male Leg Lengthening

At clinics like 'Wanna Be Taller' in Turkey, male patients are arriving in droves from all over the world to endure an expensive, bone-breaking procedure promising to increase their height as much as nine centimeters.


‘Farm Babe’ Influencer Fights For GMOs, Against MAHA

US influencer Michelle Miller aims to debunk misinformation around farming practices, but is up against a louder political movement that aims to reconfigure America's food industry.

‘Farm Babe’ Influencer Fights For GMOs, Against MAHA

US influencer Michelle Miller aims to debunk misinformation around farming practices, but is up against a louder political movement that aims to reconfigure America's food industry.


Opinion: How Wellness Became Toxic

If social media has amplified the “clean” beauty movement, it has also exposed it to poisonous misinformation, writes Lindsay Dahl.

Opinion: How Wellness Became Toxic

If social media has amplified the “clean” beauty movement, it has also exposed it to poisonous misinformation, writes Lindsay Dahl.


Opinion: RFK Jr. Is Making America Sick Again. Republicans Need a Cure.

US lawmakers will pay dearly — in lives and votes — for not reining in a peddler of junk science and anti-vax conspiracies, writes Michael R. Bloomberg.

Opinion: RFK Jr. Is Making America Sick Again. Republicans Need a Cure.

US lawmakers will pay dearly — in lives and votes — for not reining in a peddler of junk science and anti-vax conspiracies, writes Michael R. Bloomberg.