{"id":125484,"date":"2025-11-06T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125484\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:14:08","slug":"metsera-weight-loss-drug-shows-excellent-tolerability-in-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125484\/","title":{"rendered":"Metsera Weight-Loss Drug Shows \u2018Excellent\u2019 Tolerability in Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/MTSR:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Metsera Inc<\/a>.\u2019s next-generation weight-loss drug showed good tolerability with few participants dropping out of a mid-stage trial, adding to the obesity company\u2019s appeal as two industry giants fight over who will buy it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The study, which found the drug could lead to weight-loss on par with current market-leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/LLY:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Eli Lilly &amp; Co.<\/a>\u2019s Zepbound, only had about 3% of trial participants leave the study. That\u2019s lower than some other weight-loss drug trials, where higher rates of people stop taking medications due to side effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metsera Inc.\u2019s next-generation weight-loss drug showed good tolerability with few participants dropping out of a mid-stage trial, adding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[74100,20605,73525,18645,1813,103,61,15706,60,371,38314,858,18644,33606,2286],"class_list":["post-125484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-amgen-inc","tag-atlanta","tag-chapel-hill","tag-eli-lilly-co","tag-europe","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-industries","tag-ireland","tag-medication","tag-metsera-inc","tag-north-carolina","tag-novo-nordisk-a-s-b","tag-pfizer-inc","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}