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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Weight loss drugs are going oral.