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The New York Times
How Anti-Obesity Drugs are Redefining Pharma and Wellness with David Ricks and Fatima Cody Stanford
19 minutes Posted Dec 5, 2024 at 9:16 am.
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Two of the leading experts on anti-obesity drugs say the drugs are heralding a new era in medicine and could soon be used to treat a raft of other conditions.
David Ricks, the chair and chief executive of Eli Lilly, and Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, obesity medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, talk through the groundbreaking role of GLP-1 medications in transforming the treatment of obesity, and how the drug could potentially be used to treat alcohol use disorder or other addictions.