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Two other pharmaceutical companies have their own oral GLP-1 drugs in the works: Orforglipron: Developed by Eli Lilly, its in Phase 3 clinical trials for treating type 2 diabetes and obesity, with an expected September 2025 completion
People who take the most common categories of weight-loss drugs, semaglutide and tirzepatide, marketed as Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound, tended to lose about 33 pounds during their treatment but then regained about 22 pounds in the first year after stopping, Sam West, a physiology researcher at Oxford University who co-wrote the study, said in a phone interview Thursday