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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Claudia Cockerell

The new Ozempic? Weight-loss pill Amycretin could be more effective than jabs

A new weight-loss treatment that can be administered as either a weekly injection or a daily pill has shown promising results in early-stage trials, according to a new study.

In one of the trials, 125 adults were assigned to weekly injections of amycretin. Those receiving the 60 milligram dose lost nearly a quarter of their body weight over 36 weeks.

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