{"id":132670,"date":"2025-07-12T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132670"},"modified":"2025-07-12T02:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:00:11","slug":"chinese-biotech-firms-eye-foreign-pharmas-fat-profits-in-weight-loss-drug-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132670","title":{"rendered":"Chinese biotech firms eye foreign pharma\u2019s fat profits in weight loss drug market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Hong Kong office worker W.K. Chan began putting on weight as a teenager, her doctor said it was due to hormonal imbalances that slowed her metabolism. She reached a peak weight of 100kg about a year ago, but has since lost 25kg.<br \/>\nThe secret to losing a quarter of her weight? Chan, who asked not to be identified by her full name, was one of the city\u2019s first 200 chronic obesity patients to receive access to a new weight loss drug, originally developed for diabetes. At a cost of HK$2,700&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/article\/3317715\/china-has-60-drugs-under-trial-rival-ozempic-others-us150-bn-weight-loss-market?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Hong Kong office worker W.K. Chan began putting on weight as a teenager, her doctor said it was due to hormonal imbalances that&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132670"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}