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

Eli Lilly announced 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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