fromwww.scientificamerican.com
6 hours agoTrial of next-gen weight-loss drug retatrutide shows users lose almost a third of their body weight
The next generation of GLP-1 weight loss drugs has taken another step forward to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. In new clinical trial results from pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, a weekly injection of retatrutide for 80 weeks helped people lose about 30 percent of their body weightabout 85 pounds on averageaccording to a statement from the company. That puts retatrutide essentially on a par with bariatric surgery, says Daniel Drucker, a university professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, who has previously consulted for Eli Lilly but was not involved in the trial.