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Pfizer stops working on potential pill to treat obesity after study participant has liver injury

The drugmaker Pfizer is no longer developing a daily anti-obesity pill, setting back efforts to find new ways to treat obesity that don’t involve regular injections.

The company said it would stop studying the experimental drug, danuglipron, after a participant in one of its clinical trials experienced a possible drug-induced liver injury that ended once the person stopped taking the treatment.

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