India's cheap weight-loss drug boom - BBC World Service #shorts (opens in new tab)

For millions of people living with obesity, weight loss drugs have been hailed as a game changer\. They’re known as GLP-1s but are more commonly known by their trade names: Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro\. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 So far they’ve only been made by two companies in Denmark and the US and they’re pretty expensive\. But now the patents for these drugs have expired in China and India, which means pharmaceutical companies in those countries can now make cheaper copi...