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Daily pill to help keep weight off after stopping obesity jabs
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- Michelle Roberts Digital health editor Getty Images.
- The drug is already available in the US and could soon launch in the UK.
- Trials found that patients given the tablet, called orforglipron, every day for a year avoided regaining much of the weight they had lost - a known risk when coming off GLP-1 injections.
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Michelle Roberts Digital health editor Getty Images. A new daily pill could help people coming off weight-loss jabs remain slim, latest research says.
The drug is already available in the US and could soon launch in the UK.
Trials found that patients given the tablet, called orforglipron, every day for a year avoided regaining much of the weight they had lost - a known risk when coming off GLP-1 injections.
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