WHO mulls over labeling obesity drugs as essential medicines

A request to consider a Novo Nordisk obesity drug as an essential medicine was submitted by three doctors and a scientist in the US.
Photo: Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix
by marketwire, translated by daniel pedersen

Medicines that aid weight loss could potentially find themselves, for the first time, on the World Health Organization’s list over essential medicines, which is used to guide purchasing decisions in low- and middle-income countries, reports Reuters. 

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