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Belly fat-melting jab is now one step away from FDA approval
What if you could inject a drug into a "problem area" – like abdominal fat – that could kill off fat cells and reduce fat stores in that localized spot? That's what a novel drug from Taiwan's Caliway Pharmaceuticals offers, the world's very first injection that triggers programmed fat-cell death in…
"Administered via subcutaneous injection, CBL-514 has demonstrated a favorable safety and tolerability profile, enabling significant localized fat reduction without surgery and delivering results comparable to liposuction," Caliway has stated. A year later, it received European Medicines Agency (EMA) approval, being granted Orphan Drug Designation status for the treatment of Dercum's disease. “The Agency agrees that the ‘reduction of abdominal subcutaneous fat’ as the proposed indication reinforces our confidence in CBL-514’s differentiated value, and its potential to redefine standards in aesthetic medicine.”
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