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This obesity drug is on the fast track for FDA approval

There are signs that obesity drugs are improving. A new drug being “fast-tracked” for Food and Drug Administration approval has been shown to help users lose more than a fifth of their body weight.

NPR’s Allison Aubrey reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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