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In earlier reporting on the race to develop effective weight-loss tablets, experts told Newsweek that oral options could appeal to people who are reluctant to inject a medication and could help expand treatment overall
Its defensibility depends on execution density: better payer economics, better clinician productivity, better outcomes, and better patient retention than anyone else in the category
Finnema SJ, Nabulsi NB, Eid T, Detyniecki K, Lin S., Chen MK, et al
Side effects such as nausea, GI upset, and transient fatigue are commonly reported and may require dose adjustments
Other benefits, however, show untapped potential: Use of pain medication, such as acetaminophen, dropped significantly in those analyzed, and that finding was maintained throughout the entirety of the study