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.

Instead of weekly injections, patients will soon be able to swallow a daily pill to lose weight. Novo Nordisk's pill form of Wegovy is the first to gain Food and Drug Administration approval.

In 2012, Chris Emerson was staring down a fork in the road. He had finished his military service, working as a Chinese interpreter for the U.S. Navy, and was living in San Francisco while doing a postdoc in small molecule chemistry at Stanford University ...