ANALYSIS: A university student’s perspective on what's fuelling the lucrative uptake of obesity medications, and what its long-term success hinges on.
Daniel Song Sat, 21 Jun 2025
Analysts predict the global market for obesity drugs to increase by 10 to 15 times to between US$95 and US$150 billion by 2030. This explosion mirrors the 12-fold increase in worldwide smartphone sales between 2007 and 2017.
Unlike technology hardware, this market is fuelled not just by innovation
