Weight-loss drugs, revisited
Drugs that promise to help people lose weight have had a checkered past, such as the infamous fen-phen that was pulled from the market in 1997 after reports of heart valve damage. But now, drug company pipelines are filling up with new molecules that aim to help people safely shed extra pounds, according to a cover story in Chemical & Engineering News, an independent news outlet of the American Chemical Society…Novo-Nordisk’s popular new weight-loss drug Wegovy (semaglutide), which mimics a hormone that helps regulate glucose, caused an average 15% weight loss when combined with lifestyle counseling,… [read more]
