Eli Lilly is one step closer to bringing an oral weight loss medicine to the booming obesity drug market. A clinical trial saw people lose 12% of body fat.

AstraZeneca and Eccogene are advancing ECC5004, a once-daily GLP-1 receptor agonist pill. Early stage trial showed a promising weight-loss signal and a favorable safety profile, with mid stage trials ...

Eli Lilly reported $15.56bn in revenue, driven by its weight loss and diabetes drugs, intensifying pressure on rival Novo Nordisk.

Trials of a daily obesity pill have shown it can help patients lose around 12% of their body weight over 72 weeks. The ...

While orforglipron succeeded in a Phase 3 trial, its weight loss effects were more modest than investors and analysts ...

Novo Nordisk has been losing big in the past year and is down over 66% from its peak in 2024. On the other hand, Eli Lilly ...

Orforglipron led to 12.4% weight loss after 72 weeks while Novo Nordisk’s oral therapy showed a 13.6% drop in weight.

Novo Nordisk’s head of U.S. marketing, Ulrich Otte, is no longer in the role and is exploring other internal opportunities at the company outside of the U.S.

Eli Lilly's experimental weight loss pill, orforglipron, demonstrated an average weight loss of 12% in a late-stage trial, ...

Users of weight loss drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro, along with those who use type 2 diabetes drug Ozempic for weight loss ...

Several studies have found patients taking GLP-1 medications like Wegovy and Mounjaro regain weight, sparking fresh health advice from experts.

However, the late-stage study results fell short of Novo Nordisk ’s injectable Wegovy, which delivered 14.9 per cent weight loss over 68 weeks in a 2021 trial. Lilly shares plummeted 14 per cent in ...