Eli Lilly's New Weight Loss Drug May Have the Worst Name in Pharmaceutical History

Eli Lilly's New Weight Loss Drug May Have the Worst Name in Pharmaceutical History

Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced promising clinical trial results this week for a daily pill to treat obesity and diabetes. Besides the good news of minimal side effects and impressive results, though, the pill has an extremely unfortunate quality: its name. The drug, which was first discovered by Chugai Pharmaceutical and licensed to Eli Lilly in 2018, is called "orforglipron," a word so perplexingly unpronounceable — "or fugly pron"?…

Warning over potentially dangerous weight loss drugs being sold online to people 'desperate' to shed the pounds

Seizures of potentially dangerous weight loss drugs being sold on the black market in Scotland have soared as online dealers gamble with people's lives.