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FDA approves first generic GLP-1 indicated for weight loss

In the late 2000s, still haunted by the fallout from drugs like rosiglitazone (brand name Avandia), linked to increased heart attack risk, the FDA laid down a blunt new rule: every new diabetes drug must prove it wont harm the heart before it ever sees pharmacy shelves

At Rockefeller, Mojsov's supervisor was Bruce Merrifield, an American biochemist who, just after she left his laboratory, won the Nobel Prize in 1984 for developing a simple method to synthesise peptides

Obesity 30(4):841857 Coulter AA, Rebello CJ, Greenway FL (2018) Centrally acting drugs for obesity: past, present, and future

Your body has a natural GLP-1 satiety system