Market Brief: After Viking Therapeutics’ Results, Is Entera Bio the Oral Platform Play to Watch? (NASDAQ: ENTX)Viking Therapeutics' (Nasdaq: VKTX) 40% stock crash this week revealed a fundamental problem plaguing the GLP-1 driven obesity movement: achieving meaningful weight loss while balancing tolerability to keep patients on these drugs long enough to improve their potential heart, diabetes, liver and other serious metabolic conditions. In developing its oral tablet format of VK2735, Viking essentially required a daily dose of 60-120mg to reach attractive weight loss (10-13% at 13 weeks), but this came with 28-38% of patients quitting treatment within just 13 weeks due to side effects.
