All About the New Obesity Drugs Causing a Big Stir: QuickTake

Obesity is among the world’s most common health conditions, but for years medicine has had few effective approaches to offer short of surgery. That’s why there’s been so much excitement about a new class of drugs that’s helping patients shed dozens of pounds at far lower risk. Drugmakers are racing to scale up production of the few medications approved so far and test new versions. Yet there are big hurdles that could keep the medications from many or most of the billion or so people worldwide considered to have obesity: They cost a lot, insurance coverage is spotty and patients ...