Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are offering discounts to encourage more insurance coverage of the medicines, which carry price tags of over $1,000 a month.

At least a dozen experimental weight-loss drugs designed to be taken as pills are working their way through clinical trials, with the most advanced now in the third and final stage of testing.

Injectable weight loss drugs are popular right now but can be hard to get because they are in short supply or too expensive without insurance. The result is that some people are skipping the doctor's office and reaching out to potentially unreliable sources such as unlicensed online pharmacies or telehealth sites,

Cost (18 per cent) is the major reason identified in the survey, followed by not being covered by insurance (15 per cent), inability to get a prescription

As GLP-1 weight loss drugs fly off shelves, Kourtney Kardashian Barker is getting in on the hustle — well, sort of. As Business Insider and other outlets report, Kardashian Barker's brand Lemme has launched a new line of oral supplements marketed as an alternative to actual glucagon-like peptide-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.