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The HHS is disparaging its colleagues at the Africa CDC in coarse terms, that are striking even by the standards of the Trump administration.

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Trump’s HHS Trashes Top African Health Organization as “Fake” and “Powerless”

People who stop taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are finding that their hunger comes back -- with a vengeance.

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Something Grim Is Happening to People Who Go Off GLP-1s

By Sharon Adarlo

People have been losing weight on retatrutide, more powerful than GLP-1 agonist drugs, but they are buying them from unapproved sources.

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People Jabbing Themselves With Black Market “GLP-3” Drugs

By Sharon Adarlo

A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.

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Alzheimer’s Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say

By Sharon Adarlo

Makers of Ozempic and other weight loss drugs are facing lawsuits that allege the drugs cause blindness in some patients.

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Lawsuits Allege Ozempic Is Causing Blindness

By Sharon Adarlo

Psychiatrists studied years of medical cannabis research and concluded that medical cannabis doesn't help patients on acute pain or insomnia.

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Huge Study Finds Very Worrying Results for Medical Marijuana Patients

By Sharon Adarlo

A first-of-its-kind study in Australia found that giving men a common antidepressant helped reduce domestic violence rates.

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Scientists Find That Dosing Men With Antidepressants Can Cut Down on Domestic Violence

A bizarre cryptocurrency company is creating an alternative to the widely used opium reversal drug Naxalone, for inexplicable reasons.

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Crypto Company Creates Bizarre Drug

A new study strongly suggests that low doses of weight loss drugs like Ozempic can counteract aging in middle aged mice.

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Low Doses of Ozempic-Like Drug Can Counteract Aging in Older Mice, Study Finds

By Sharon Adarlo

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has smoked the powerful psychedelic DMT, according to a new book by Olivia Nuzzi, his one-time online fling.

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The “Sober” RFK Jr. Has Allegedly Been Smoking DMT

By Sharon Adarlo

A new provision tagged onto the recent US government funding bill will effectively ban hemp-derived THC products in Fall of 2026.

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Congress Just Snuck a Bizarre Hemp Ban Into Law in Ridiculous Example of Government Overreach

The President announced a deal to cap the prices of weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound for some Medicare recipients.

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Trump Strikes Deal to Offer Americans GLP-1 Drugs for Much Cheaper

Americans are getting slimmer; Gallup says the obesity rate has decreased along with increased use of weight loss drugs such as Ozempic.

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American Obesity Rates Are Now Falling, and It’s Almost Certainly Because of Ozempic

By Sharon Adarlo

Women report higher sex drives, more energy, better moods and tons of other benefits to testosterone therapy.

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Women Are Getting on Testosterone and They Say It’s Absolutely Awesome

New findings show that these diabetes and weight-loss drugs may actually change the way our bodies process alcohol.

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Doctors Just Found Something Fascinating About What Happens When You Drink on Ozempic

Reddit's conversational AI Reddit Answers highlighted users' positive experiences managing their pain with heroin.

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Reddit’s AI Suggests That People Suffering Chronic Pain Try Opioids

US president Donald Trump has received multiple vaccines -- while his allies and appointees continue to rage against them.

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Trump Admits He Got Jabbed With Multiple Vaccines That His Allies Say Are Poison

Scientists in Australia tested a new cream that's now been proven to fade older mature scars such as keloids.

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Scientists Intrigued by Cream Designed to Make Old Scars Disappear

By Sharon Adarlo

Novo Nordisk, the drugmaker behind Ozempic, is laying off thousands of workers as it struggles against competition from other pharma firms.

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The Inventor of Ozempic Is Suddenly Sacking Huge Numbers of Employees

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers are working on a pill that could allow patients' brains to recover from a traumatic injury or stroke.

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Scientists Intrigued by Pill That May Heal Brain After Stroke or Brain Injury

By Victor Tangermann

After falling down a wellness rabbit hole, one woman learned the hard way that going off the pill might have some unintended consequences.

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Woman Gets Off Birth Control Because Influencers Told Her To, Immediately Gets Pregnant by Mistake

By Noor Al-Sibai

A close confidante of Elon Musk's who once worked at his DOGE agency is now in control of a pharma company that's poised to sell legal MDMA.

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Top Elon Musk Acolyte Running Large MDMA Empire

By Noor Al-Sibai

Thanks to massive competition from other drugmakers and generic fakers, Novo Nordisk, the company behind Ozempic, is now on a hiring freeze.

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The Maker of Ozempic Is in Such Deep Trouble That It’s Going on Hiring Lockdown

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have found new evidence that Ozempic can slow or even reverse aging — yet another health benefit of the popular jab.

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Scientists Find Evidence That Ozempic Can Reverse Aging

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ozempic manufacturer Novo Nordisk slashed its sales forecast and saw its value plunge by nearly $100 billion.

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The Creator of Ozempic Is in Terrible Trouble

By Frank Landymore

President Donald Trump's new European tariffs may spell bad news for Novo Nordisk, maker of Ozempic and Wegovy.

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A Side Effect of Trump’s Tariffs: Making Ozempic Way More Expensive

By Noor Al-Sibai

With their lengthening laundry list of health benefits, drugs like Ozempic are showing promise for people who struggle with addiction.

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Doctors Say Ozempic Is Wildly Effective at Helping Addicts Beat Cravings

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have gene-hacked mice to produce their own Ozempic-like drugs, paving a path for humans to do so themselves one day.

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Scientists Gene Hack Mice So Their Livers Produce Their Own Ozempic-Like Drug

By Noor Al-Sibai

As weight loss jabs like Ozempic become ever more popular, doctors are growing increasingly concerned about their gnarly side effects.

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Doctors Are Warning That Ozempic’s Severe Side Effects May Outweigh Its Benefits

By Noor Al-Sibai

The UK's health regulator is investigating Ozempic and Mounjaro after linking the drugs to hundreds of severe illnesses and deaths.

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Ozempic-Style Drugs Linked To Hundreds of Illnesses and Deaths

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gas stations and head shops across the United States are still selling dangerous "elixirs" that cause life-threatening seizures and blackouts

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Gas Stations Are Selling a Sleazy Drug That Gives You Seizures

By Noor Al-Sibai

Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharma company behind Ozempic, made a very dumb decision a few years ago that will massively eat into its profits.

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Something Comically Bad Just Happened to the Inventor of Ozempic

By Noor Al-Sibai

Financial services firm Redburn Atlantic says McDonald's is in trouble, due to weight loss drugs like Ozempic.

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McDonald’s in Trouble as Ozempic Takes Hold

By Sharon Adarlo

Teens are being prescribed Ozempic more than ever before — and some doctors are worried about what the trend could mean.

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Doctors Concerned By Massive Uptick In Teens Taking Ozempic

By Noor Al-Sibai

CPS-1 is a rare genetic disorder, and doctors are using CRISPR to heal it in one baby.

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In a World First, CRISPR Drug Tailored for One Baby Shows Life-Saving Promise

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ozempic is massively threatening the established diet industry — and it appears that Weight Watchers is now getting the hatchet.

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Weight Watchers Goes Bankrupt After Rise of Ozempic-Like Drugs

By Noor Al-Sibai

A veteran psychiatrist had some surprising advice that may help you fill your ADHD prescription next month.

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To Fill Your Adderall Prescription Amid Shortage, Try Getting It Filled on This Particular Day of the Month

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ingenious researchers have developed a virtual reality program that puts domestic abusers in the position of their victims.

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New VR Program Gives Domestic Abusers a Taste of Their Own Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

Student scientists have developed an incredible new way to synthesize drugs on plants — and they're using Ozempic as their test case.

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Students Concoct Ingenious Scheme To Grow Ozempic At Home

By Noor Al-Sibai

Doctors have begun noticing a trend: they all seem to get full before finishing dinner, and it's likely thanks to drugs like Ozempic.

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Doctors Have One Weird Trick to Tell When Their Colleagues Are On Ozempic

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists discovered a fungus that caused spiders to "exhibit behavioral changes similar to those reported for zombie ants."

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Scientists Discover “Zombie” Fungus That Seizes Control of Spiders, Suggest It Be Used for Human Medicine

By Victor Tangermann

More and more people are taking weight loss injectables like Wegovy — but not everyone prescribed these drugs should have access to them.

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Pharmacists Warn That People With Eating Disorders Are Misusing Wegovy Prescriptions

By Noor Al-Sibai

After UnitedHealthcare's drug arm jacked up the price of inhalers, a young man with severe asthma had to go without — and then died.

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Mother Says Her Son Died After UnitedHealth Jacked the Price of His Inhaler From $66 to $539

By Noor Al-Sibai

Conservative Christian business owners believe that covering HIV prevention medication violates their freedom of religion rights.

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Religious Conservatives Trying to End Insurance Coverage of Incredibly Effective Anti-HIV Drug

By Noor Al-Sibai

As Ozempic keeps flying off the shelves, more and more people are taking the drug into their own hands by "microdosing" it.

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More and More People Are Microdosing Ozempic

By Noor Al-Sibai

Trump's top pick to lead Medicare, Dr. Mehmet Oz, has a glaring conflict of interest: that he was sponsored by the company that makes Ozempic.

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Dr. Oz Will Have a Fascinating Conflict of Interest Running Medicare: Ozempic

By Noor Al-Sibai

For some, the issue with GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy isn't getting access to these game-changing medications, but having them not work.

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Woman Annoyed When She Gets on Wegovy and It Does Nothing

By Noor Al-Sibai

RFK Jr. admitted that using heroin helped him become a better student — but when it comes to actual ADHD meds, he's not having it.

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RFK Jr., Who Hates Adderall, Says Heroin Was Great for Treating His ADHD

By Noor Al-Sibai

RFK Jr. keeps trashing Adderall for "poisoning" America's youth — and has also said he wants to send away people who take it.

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If You Take Adderall, RFK Jr. Should Probably Make You Quite Nervous

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study has found that Mounjaro may not only be good at treating diabetes, but could actually help prevent the disease.

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Mounjaro Appears to Be Extremely Effective at Preventing Diabetes

By Noor Al-Sibai

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lobbied against vaccination in Samoa prior to a deadly uptick in measles that infected dozens of children.

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Trump’s Health Guy Linked to Measles Outbreak That Killed Dozens of Children

By Ashley Bardhan

The active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy has once again proven to have health effects outside of weight loss.

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Patients Taking Ozempic Are Up to 70 Percent Less Likely to Develop Alzheimer’s, Research Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

City employees in NYC had insurance coverage for GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound for less than a year before learning it was mistake.

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New York City Utterly Screwed Up Insurance for Employees Taking GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs

By Noor Al-Sibai

With weight loss injectables like Ozempic and Mounjaro taking the world by storm, the diet industry is seemingly being left in the dust.

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The Diet Industry Is Reportedly in Total Meltdown Over GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs

By Noor Al-Sibai

While seeking re-election, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro is making a huge campaign promise: free Ozempic for all.

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Deranged Mayor Promises “No More Fat People” With Free Ozempic Shots

By Noor Al-Sibai

People who take Novo Nordisk's semaglutide-based injectables Ozempic and Wegovy seem to be way less likely to die from overdosing on opioids.

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People Taking Semaglutide Appear to Be WAY Less Likely to Die of an Opioid Overdose

By Noor Al-Sibai

A woman with type 1 diabetes received her own stem cells and started producing her own insulin — a first time ever successful experiment.

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Woman’s Own Stem Cells Appear to Reverse Her Type 1 Diabetes in First-Ever Procedure

By Sharon Adarlo

Novo Nordisk, the manufacturer behind Ozempic and Wegovy, has another weight loss medication in the works with some unsettling side effects.

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Novo Nordisk’s New Weight Loss Drug Shows Ominous Psychiatric Side Effects

By Noor Al-Sibai

Roughly three-quarters of people who took both an injectable and pill version of a new GLP-1 weight loss drug in trials experienced vomiting.

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New Weight Loss Drug Has Small Problem: Uncontrollable Vomiting

By Noor Al-Sibai

With so many kids already taking Ozempic, a new finding from the company behind the drug may expand its pediatric market.

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Doctors Concerned About Drugmakers Testing Ozempic-Style Injections on Six-Year-Olds

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a sweeping new lawsuit, over 900 people are claiming that Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs caused them long-term gastrointestinal damage.

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More Than 900 Patients Say Ozempic and Similar Drugs Unexpectedly Injured Them

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Louisiana abortion law could cause doctors to take misopristol, used to treat life-threatening postpartum hemorrhaging, off emergency carts.

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Deranged Anti-Abortion Law Will Keep Hospitals From Saving Dying Women, Doctors Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A woman prescribed Ozempic and Wegovy is now suing the company that makes it after losing her colon from complications caused by the drugs.

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Woman Says Her Colon Had to Be Removed After Taking Ozempic

By Noor Al-Sibai

The makers of Zepbound are offering a massive price cut — if you're willing to purchase and dose your syringes out yourself.

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Eli Lilly Offering Way Cheaper Zepbound, If You’re Willing to Buy Your Own Syringes

By Noor Al-Sibai