Weight-Loss Drugs’ Environmental Cost

Experts warn that current methods of making the peptide drugs are environmentally unfriendly April 28, 2024 by Aayushi Pratap Chemical & Engineering News, Volume 102, Issue 13 This article explores the significant environmental challenges associated with the rapidly increasing production of popular peptide-based weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound. It highlights that current manufacturing methods, primarily solid-phase peptide … Read more

FDA Accepts Novo Nordisk’s Application for Oral Wegovy: 5 Things to Know

A Wegovy weight loss pill from Novo Nordisk is forthcoming, providing an alternative to injectable GLP-1 drugs. Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images Federal regulators have accepted Novo Nordisk’s application to produce a pill version of its injectable weight loss medication Wegovy. Experts say an oral medication might be easier for people to use, … Read more

GLP-1 reduces adverse cardiac events before weight loss: 3 notes

Adult patients taking Wegovy saw a reduced risk of experiencing a major adverse cardiovascular event within the first three months of treatment, according to a secondary analysis of the drug’s clinical trial data, presented May 12 at the European Congress on Obesity. Here are three notes from the secondary analysis: The “Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes … Read more