{"id":12122,"date":"2025-08-07T17:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/eli-lilly-weight-loss-pill-shows-promise-but-not-as-strong-as-injectables\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T17:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:20:44","slug":"eli-lilly-weight-loss-pill-shows-promise-but-not-as-strong-as-injectables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/eli-lilly-weight-loss-pill-shows-promise-but-not-as-strong-as-injectables\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Lilly weight loss pill shows promise, but not as strong as injectables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Lilly&rsquo;s experimental oral weight loss pill helped patients lose about 12 percent of their body weight on average in a late-stage trial, the company said Thursday, positive results but still less than its injectable competitors.  Lilly&rsquo;s stock was down more than 14 percent on the day after the results were announced&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5441153-eli-lilly-oral-weight-loss-pill\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Lilly&rsquo;s experimental oral weight loss pill helped patients lose about 12 percent of their body weight on average in a late-stage trial, the company said Thursday, positive results but still less than its injectable competitors. Lilly&rsquo;s stock was down more than 14 percent on the day after the results were announced&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}