New anti-obesity medications represent a breakthrough in treatment, but will their potential be fully realized?
The new generation of weight loss medications has become a sensation, from the pages of medical journals to People magazine. Jimmy Kimmel and Christina Applegate quipped about Ozempic, one of the medications, at Hollywood awards shows. Oprah Winfrey, who showed off a slimmed down look on the red carpet recently, said she'd added weight loss drugs to her fitness regimen. Science magazine named this class of medication, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1s), as the 2023 Breakthrough of the Year.
GLP-1s have produced meaningful results and hold much promise. But what are the realitie...