Posts Tagged ‘monoclonal antibodies’

Ania Jastreboff and Lee Kaplan Chair at ADA Scientific Sessions, photograph by Ted Kyle

ADA2025: Two Remarkable New Obesity Drugs at an Early Stage

June 24, 2025 — On the closing day of the ADA Scientific Sessions in Chicago, we got a good look at two remarkable new obesity drugs. Both of them have potential to bring important advances. Both of them need more work before they will be ready to go to FDA for approval. This was a rare treat. Bimagrumab The […]

Atlas and the Hesperides

Tantalizing: Bimagrumab, Obesity, and Body Composition

January 6, 2020 — It was a stunning and unique result that seemed to come out of nowhere at ObesityWeek late last year. A new drug, bimagrumab, yielded a 21 percent reduction in fat mass after 48 weeks. But lean body mass went up by 3.6 percent. This result is distinctly different from what usually happens in obesity treatment. […]