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STAT+: Lilly’s triple-G drug beats Ozempic in head-to-head study

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STAT+: Lilly’s triple-G drug beats Ozempic in head-to-head study
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Lilly’s triple-G drug beats Ozempic in head-to-head study

Eli Lilly said this morning that its investigational drug retatrutide was more effective at lowering blood sugar and cutting weight than Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic in a large diabetes study.

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