{"id":7642,"date":"2025-08-19T18:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:55:12","slug":"side-effects-make-vikings-oral-obesity-drug-a-tough-pill-for-investors-to-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=7642","title":{"rendered":"Side Effects Make Viking\u2019s Oral Obesity Drug a Tough Pill for Investors to Swallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/08\/viking-therapeutics-oral-obesity-drug-vk2735-glp1-gip-agonist-vktx\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Viking Therapeutics\u2019 obesity pill met weight reduction goals of its Phase 2 test, but gastrointestinal side effects led to high discontinuation rates. Even so, analysts see potential for a lower dose of the Viking drug as a maintenance therapy. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/08\/viking-therapeutics-oral-obesity-drug-vk2735-glp1-gip-agonist-vktx\/\">Side Effects Make Viking\u2019s Oral Obesity Drug a Tough Pill for Investors to Swallow<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viking Therapeutics\u2019 obesity pill met weight reduction goals of its Phase 2 test, but gastrointestinal side effects led to high discontinuation rates. Even so, analysts see potential for a lower dose of the Viking drug as a maintenance therapy. The post Side Effects Make Viking\u2019s Oral Obesity Drug a Tough Pill for Investors to Swallow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}