Is This Drug the Future of Weight Loss?

In a clinical trial, subjects who injected it weekly for 68 weeks lost almost 15% of their body weight, compared to just 2.4% in the placebo group. Over a third of patients who received semaglutide lost more than 20% of their body weight, and many patients experienced improved symptoms of diabetes and pre-diabetes. Dr. Robert F. Kushner, an obesity researcher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and leader of the study said, “The drug is a game-changer. This is the start of a new era of effective treatments for obesity.”