Zepbound beats Wegovy for weight loss
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The obesity drug helped people trim about two inches more off their waists than Wegovy in the first head-to-head study of the rival medicines.
At 72 weeks, participants using Zepbound saw an average weight-loss reduction of 20.2% versus 13.7% with Novo Nordisk’s own treatment, Eli Lilly said of the results presented at the European Congress on Obesity and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Novo Nordisk is making yet another bet on obesity, offering Septerna more than $200 million in upfront and near-term payments for rights to preclinical oral small molecules that hit targets including GLP-1.
Novo Nordisk partners with U.S. biotech Septerna in a $2.2 billion deal to develop oral small molecule drugs for obesity and metabolic diseases. This collaboration enhances Novo's position in the expanding obesity market.