New Drug Causes 20 Percent Weight Loss in Early Amgen Results
The pharmaceutical manufacturer Amgen announced on Tuesday that an experimental obesity drug helped patients lose up to 20 percent of their weight in a year. The drug, MariTide, is given by injection once a month, compared with once a week for other obesity drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound that are already on the market.
Shares in Amgen fell on Tuesday after they announced the results of a trial for their weight loss drug MariTide.
William Blair's assessment is that MariTide is an improvement on current obesity therapies with a profile that "will be ...
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Amgen Obesity Drug Cut Weight In Closely Watched StudyA highly anticipated obesity-drug candidate from biotech Amgen helped patients shed a significant amount of weight in a ...
MariTide, which like Eli Lilly’s Zepound is a dual agonist of the GLP-1 and GIP receptors, demonstrated an average weight ...
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