WEIGHT LOSS PILL TO SEEK APPROVAL

Hope of 'cheap and effective' non-jag drug for NHS patients

- BY DAN WARBURTON

A POWERFUL new generation of weight-loss pills that could provide hope for millions of patients are set to be considered by regulators for NHS approval.

A trial found overweight people taking the medication lost up to almost 2st - or 12 per cent of their body weight after 18 months.

The maker, US firm Lilly, said it will seek the go-ahead by regulators for the drug orforglipron.

It could be a cheaper and easier alternative to weight-loss jags, which have to be refrigerated.

The daily tablet is a GLP-1 agonist, which can cut appetite. Like jags, the pill mimics the effects of hormones that make people feel full. Lilly also makes weight-loss jag Mounjaro.