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Hi, this is Amber in Hong Kong, where I’ve been tracking the prices of weight-loss drugs on the mainland. They could soon get even cheaper. But before we dive in …
Weight-loss drugs feel so ubiquitous these days that it’s easy to forget how difficult it still is for much of the world’s obese population to get them. Given high costs and supply constraints, fewer than 10% of everyone who could benefit from GLP-1 drugs get them, the World Health Organization recently warned.