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New oral GLP-1 drugs could offer more options for weight loss

GLP-1 injections require refrigeration and needles. Pills wouldn’t

White pills fall from a silver funnel at a manufacturing facility.

An Eli Lilly employee collects product during the manufacturing of orforglipron, an investigational oral GLP-1 drug, at a Lilly facility. New clinical trials show that orforglipron and another oral drug help people with obesity lose weight.

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By Meghan Rosen

Weight loss drugs are going oral.

Two new medications taken by mouth can help trim body weight in people living with obesity, scientists report in two studies published September 16 and 17 in the New England Journal of Medicine.