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

Conservative Christian business owners believe that covering HIV prevention medication violates their freedom of religion rights.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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By Noor Al-Sibai

Novo Nordisk has found that its obesity drug Wegovy reduces the risk of COVID-19 death by a third, compared to those who took a placebo.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A near-death experience expert insists that one's heart stopping doesn't have to be the end with current death-defying interventions.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

New findings from a long-term study found that Zepbound and Mounjaro almost completely eliminates the risk of developing diabetes.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

In a small study, researchers have found that an Ozempic-style drug seems to slow the progression of Alzheimer's.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new study, elderly lab mice given an anti-aging drug were referred to as "supermodel grannies" because they looked so youthful.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Eli Lilly, the maker of Zepbound, is hoping that new studies into off-label treatments will help get the drugs covered by insurance.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

After an alarming new study came out suggesting a link between Ozempic and a condition that causes blindness, some experts are calling foul.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Semaglutide, the active ingredient in Novo Nordisk's Ozempic and Wegovy, has been linked to an eye condition that can cause blindness.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders are calling on the makers of weight loss drugs like Ozempic to make them cheaper.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Eli Lilly, the pharma firm behind Zepbound and Mounjaro is, ironically, calling people out for using the drugs to lose weight. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The World Health Organization has issued an alert about counterfeit Ozempic, noting that some of the batches might contain a different drug.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

As China prepares to beef up its weight loss drug market, the Danish firm that makes Ozempic may soon have its dominance threatened.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

More and more kids are using Ozempic and Wegovy than ever before, and that might not necessarily be a good thing. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The company behind those viral ED ads is releasing its own version of Ozempic — but its means of acquiring the drug might not be the safest.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Japanese scientists are set to kick off the world's first clinical trials of "tooth regrowth medicine" at the Kyoto University Hospital.
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By Victor Tangermann

Novo Nordisk, the Danish drugmaker responsible for Ozempic and Wegovy, is planning to slash prices amid shortages and competition.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The FTC is seeking to clear the path for generic Ozempic — but there will be a long road ahead before cheaper versions hit the shelves.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The fringe benefits of the new class of weight loss drugs, which includes Ozempic and its weight loss sister Wegovy, keep adding up.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Abuse of ketamine has been implicated in young people experiencing bladder issues that are commonly associated with older people.
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By Sharon Adarlo

A new study puts to rest the claim that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are causing cardiac arrest in young men and often killing them.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Costco shoppers can start getting weight loss drugs like Ozempic through the company's health care partner Sesame.
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By Sharon Adarlo

On social media, a bizarre trend seems to be emerging: people discussing their surprise pregnancies when taking Ozempic or Wegovy.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

As next-generation weight-loss treatments like Wegovy fly off the shelves, scientists are working on an exercise pill.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

After spending nearly a decade hyping WeightWatchers, Oprah Winfrey has changed her tune and is now taking the CEO of her ex-sponsor to task.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

In his hour-long interview with former CNN anchor Don Lemon, Elon Musk argued that taking ketamine has been good for Tesla.
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By Victor Tangermann

The maker of Wegovy has been granted FDA approval to sell its wares to help cut the risk of heart attack, heart disease, and stroke.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

While trying to slim down a bit for her wedding day, one woman decided to take some compounded semaglutide — and it landed her in the ER.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Pharmaceutical manufacturers in India are looking to cash in on the weight loss injection craze by making their own version of Wegovy.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

During the Trump administration, the White House's personal pharmacy operated as a glorified pill mill, a new watchdog report claims.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The FDA says there's not a strong link between semaglutide and suicidal thoughts — but there's more to those results than meets the eye.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

People who stopped using Ozempic and Wegovy have reported one unfortunate, if not life-threatening, side effect: regaining the weight back.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

People have evidently been overdosing on semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, because they're taking too much of it.
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By Noor Al-Sibai