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Business Wars Daily

Weight-Loss Startups Struggle With Shortages

Business Wars Daily

Wondery

News, Daily News, Business News, Business

4.6716 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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How do I cope with waiting for results?

0:11.6

It's all I can think about.

0:13.5

Is the cancer going to come back?

0:16.0

I can't sleep.

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How do I stop worrying?

0:19.5

We know what goes through your head when you're living with

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cancer. The questions, the anxieties. We understand because we've been there too. If you or

0:27.9

someone you care about has been diagnosed with cancer, McMillan Cancer supports online community

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can help from day one. It's a free, safe, online forum for people with cancer to connect anonymously.

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Thank you. McMillan Online Community. From Wondry, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Thursday, September

1:07.4

14th.

1:08.4

Here on this show, we've been keeping up with a $100 billion weight loss

1:12.4

drug market. Back in 2021, the drug Wigovee was approved for what the FDA called chronic weight

1:18.5

management, the first of its kind to be approved since 2014. And this year, the brand name

1:23.8

OZempic took off. Ever heard of it? While OZempec is not officially approved for

1:29.1

weight loss, it's been prescribed off-label to treat obesity since it was initially approved

1:33.4

for diabetes patients back in 2017. Someaglutide, the active ingredient in both Wagovi and

1:40.2

Ozempic, surged in popularity this year year after a slate of celebrities said they used it for

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