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Eli Lilly will significantly increase the price of its weight-loss drug Mounjaro in the United Kingdom in a bid to bring down prices in the United States after weeks of pressure from the Trump administration.

The US drugmaker announced Thursday that it was rolling out price hikes across Europe, with prices rising in the UK from September.

The price of a month’s supply of the highest dose of Mounjaro in the UK will rise from £122 ($165) to £330 ($447) , Eli Lilly confirmed to CNN, representing a 170% increase.

Eli Lilly (LLY) confirmed that prices for Mounjaro accessed through the NHS, the UK’s public health service, would remain unchanged. Around 220,000 Brits are expected to access Mounjaro, which is also used by diabetics, through the NHS in the first three years o

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