{"id":100677,"date":"2025-08-27T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100677\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:23:14","slug":"eli-lillys-weight-loss-pill-clears-latest-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100677\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Lilly\u2019s weight loss pill clears latest trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US pharma giant Eli Lilly said its anti-obesity pill hit weight loss targets in a recent trial, boosting its efforts to compete in the expanding market. <\/p>\n<p>The findings help Lilly counter earlier trial results that underwhelmed investors, showing how closely the market is watching the development of anti-obesity pills, which would cost less than current injectable GLP-1 medications. Danish rival Novo Nordisk submitted its first weight loss pill for US approval in May, putting pressure on Lilly, which said Tuesday that its medication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/78e99a27-9b63-4c42-80c4-3459c737db9b\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">outperformed Novo\u2019s<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Broadly, experts say the drugs\u2019 potential in wide-ranging applications will have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/08\/26\/how-glp-1s-wegovy-zepbound-are-reshaping-the-economy.html\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">vast economic implications<\/a>, boosting GDP through increased productivity and healthcare savings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US pharma giant Eli Lilly said its anti-obesity pill hit weight loss targets in a recent trial, boosting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-100677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}