Obesity drugs progress on FDA approval of treatments
Photo credit: Illustration Paul Tong | An illustration on obesity.
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Health indicatorsObesity drugs are getting a lift after years of languishing even as populations around the globe get heavier. Rather than pharmaceutical giants, though, it's small companies with an appetite for risk leading the charge.
Plagued with failures and side effects, drug development in obesity slowed to a near halt in the last decade as most large pharmaceutical companies abandoned efforts, leaving...
