Americans seeking to lose weight now have a new option – taking Wegovy as a daily pill, rather than a weekly injection.

In coming weeks, Wegovy pill will be available in four doses: a starter dose of 1.5 mg, as well as 4 mg, 9 mg, and 25 mg. As with injectable Wegovy, most patients will start with the lowest dose and gradually ramp up their dosage over a period of months until they reach the maximum dose, which they will continue to maintain their new weight.

Switching off your appetite for the day is about to be as easy and as pain-free as popping a paracetamol to soothe a niggling headache, or warding off a cold with a couple of vitamins.

A DAILY weight loss pill that helped patients shed up to 20 per cent of their body weight in trials has been given the green light in the US. The tablet, made by Danish drug giant Novo Nordisk, is