Novo's Semaglutide Outperforms Lilly's Trulicity In SUSTAIN 7

Lilly's performance-based plans for Trulicity may be harder to sustain if Novo's competing once-weekly GLP-1 agonist semaglutide is approved in December, following superiority in a head-to-head diabetes study.

Diabetes

Novo Nordisk AS's investigational once-weekly glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist semaglutide is poised to give Eli Lilly & Co.'s once-weekly GLP-1 Trulicity a run for its money after demonstrating better performance for blood sugar lowering and weight loss in the head-to-head SUSTAIN 7 study of type 2 diabetes.

Semaglutide, which like Trulicity (dulaglutide) is given by injection, is now under review at the US FDA, with a December...

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