PureTech Health-affiliated weight loss drug gets FDA approval

Nearly two decades after being founded, life sciences company-creator and incubator PureTech Health has helped bring its first product to market. PureTech-affiliate Gelesis last week received FDA approval for a weight-loss capsule that releases a special formatted gel that fills up a portion of a person's stomach. Overweight subjects who took the prescription drug, Plenity, before eating were almost twice as likely to meet a weight loss goa l, according to clinical trial data. Plenity is the first…
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