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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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Online Pharmacy Launches Cheaper Version of Ozempic

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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Scientists About to Test Medicine to Grow New Teeth

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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Novo Nordisk To Slash Prices On Buzzy Drugs Ozempic and Wegovy

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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FTC Moves to Allow Generic Versions of Ozempic

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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People on Ozempic Find That They’re Drinking and Smoking Less Too

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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Ketamine Is Destroying Young People’s Bladders

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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Conspiracy Theorists Said People Who Got the COVID Vaccine Would Be Dropping Like Flies. That Hasn’t Remotely Happened

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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Costco Now Offering Ozempic Prescriptions

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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People Unexpectedly Getting Pregnant on Ozempic and Wegovy

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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Scientists Working on Pill You Can Take Instead of Exercising

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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Oprah Questions Need For WeightWatchers Now That We Have Wegovy

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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Elon Musk Says Ketamine Is His Special Medicine

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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Wegovy Approved to Cut Heart Disease and Stroke Risk

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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Woman Takes Grey Market Ozempic, Lands in Hospital

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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Indian Drugmakers Whipping Up Generic Versions of Wegovy

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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Unregulated White House Pharmacy Gave Out Uppers and Downers to Senior Staff Under Trump

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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The FDA Says Ozempic Probably Won’t Make You Suicidal

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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Semaglutide Patients Regained More Weight Than They’d Lost After Stopping Their Injections

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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Thousands of People Have Reportedly Overdosed on Ozempic

By Noor Al-Sibai

Pfizer's new experimental weight-loss pill worked in achieving its stated goal — but with that weight loss came some pretty bad side effects.

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Pfizer Cancels New Weight Loss Pill After Patients Experience Serious Side Effects

By Noor Al-Sibai

A public employee in Washington State is suing to get her health insurer to cover Wegovy, the expensive, headline-grabbing weight loss med.

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Woman Sues to Get Wegovy Covered by Her Health Insurance

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ozempic, the uber-popular injectable diabetes drug, has had to update its potential side effect warnings to include intestinal blockage.

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The FDA Says Ozempic Might Block Your Intestines

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists believe they have developed a drug that can trick the body into thinking it has exercised — but as always, there are caveats.

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Scientists Intrigued by Drug That Mimics the Effects of Exercise in Mice

By Noor Al-Sibai

50 percent of cardiac patients have a physical symptom a day before a heart attack, with men and women experiencing distinct warning signs.

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Scientists Find There’s Usually a Telltale Sign the Day Before a Cardiac Arrest

By Sharon Adarlo

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Shocker: Pharma Companies Are Behind the Adderall Shortage, Feds Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

A drug trial has found that Wegovy provides substantial heart health benefits, which could finally convince insurers to begin covering it.

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Wegovy Trial Shows Incredible Results for Heart Health

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers pinpointed six chemical cocktails that can reverse aging in cells and turn them into a more "youthful state."

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Harvard/MIT Scientists Claim New “Chemical Cocktails” Can Reverse Aging

By Sharon Adarlo

The Food and Drug Administration just approved the first topical erectile dysfunction drug in the US that works within just ten minutes.

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FDA Approves First Erectile Dysfunction Gel That Doesn’t Require a Prescription

By Frank Landymore

One of the scientists who invented the underlying mechanism of Ozempic has a pretty severe warning for those interested in taking it.

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Scientist Behind Ozempic Warns That There’s a “Price”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gwenyth Paltrow, reigning queen of oversharing, is back to let us all know that she has, in fact, used ozone therapy rectally. You know, as one does.

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Gwyneth Paltrow Is Literally Shooting Ozone Up Her Butt for the Sake of “Wellness”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The FDA has changed its rules to make it easier for patients to access abortion pills, which until now were difficult to get.

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The FDA Will Now Allow You To Buy Abortion Pills At Normal Pharmacies

By Noor Al-Sibai

Harm reduction works, as evidenced by a new study in Ohio that found easy access to narcan to prevent nearly 1,000 overdoses in less than two years.

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A Naloxone Vending Machine Has Reversed Nearly 1,000 Overdoses, Researcher Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

In what could be a groundbreaking treatment for hair loss, Japanese scientists have, for the first time ever, grown hair follicles in a lab.

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Scientists Grow Hair Follicles in Laboratory for the First Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

A federal court has revived a lawsuit against Walmart and CVS for allegedly passing off long-discredited homeopathic treatments as actual, proven medicine.

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Lawsuit Accuses Walmart and CVS of Equating Homeopathic Treatments With Real Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are using genetically modified parasites inside mosquitoes to deliver life-saving malaria vaccines in a new clinical study.

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Scientists Trick Mosquitoes Into Vaccinating Against Malaria by Biting

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Navy SEALs candidates go through brutal training, including a Hell Week. One Navy SEAL candidate died after completing training, and took drugs to survive.

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Navy SEALs Are Allegedly Taking Viagra for a Very Strange Reason

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Low doses of minoxidil, the active ingredient in Rogaine, may reverse balding super cheaply — and yet most of us still haven't heard of it.

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Doctors Say a Random Cheap Pill May Actually Reverse Balding

By Noor Al-Sibai

Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli is reportedly launching a Web3 drug discovery platform called Druglike, allegedly to democratize and decentralize the industry.

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Martin Shkreli Is out of Prison, so of Course He’s Getting Into Web3

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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WHO Declares World Health Emergency Over Monkeypox

By Lonnie Lee Hood

North Korea Claims It Only Got COVID Because South Korea Sent Over “Tainted Balloons”

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North Korea Claims It Only Got COVID Because South Korea Sent Over “Tainted Balloons”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Demand for both abortion and non-abortion emergency contraceptive pills has skyrocketed, putting a lot of added stress on makers, providers, and pharmacies.

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People Are Stockpiling Abortion Pills and Emergency Contraceptives After Roe Reversal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of researchers say they found the molecules in mouse blood that reduces appetite and obesity — an exercise pill, if you will.

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Scientists Say They’re Honing in on a Pill You Can Take Instead of Exercising

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A UK toddler started puberty at just two years old after being exposed to his dad's testosterone gel, a hormone used for gender-affirming care.

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Doctors Puzzled by Two-Year-Old Boy Who Already Hit Puberty

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Immunity-boosting drugs may have huge implications in the pharmaceutical fight against COVID-19.

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Doctors Impressed by Drugs That Rejuvenate Immune System

By Noor Al-Sibai

Reserachers used a spinal cord implant in mice to help them walk again after being paralyzed long-term. They hope for human clinical trials.

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Scientists Heal Paralyzed Mice With Spinal Cord Implants

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Joe Rogan actually used to want people to get the vaccine as evidenced by a resurfaced clip with guest Dr. Michael Osterholm, member of Biden’s COVID board.

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Video Shows Joe Rogan Mocking Vaccine Skeptics Back in 2020

By Lonnie Lee Hood

To no one's surprise, a new study has found that many purported hangover "cures" are pretty much worthless.

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Hangover “Cures” Are Total Nonsense, According to Science

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tech Bro Thinks He’s Close to Cheating Death

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Tech Bro Thinks He’s Close to Cheating Death

By Noor Al-Sibai

Doctors say that a woman who refused treatment and took CBD oil instead showed a remarkable improvement and that the tumor in her lung shrank drastically.

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Doctors Say CBD Oil Shrank a Patient’s Tumor

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization gave the world's first malaria vaccine the green light, but it will be a challenge to deploy for the countries that need it.

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Bureaucracy Could Keep Kids From Getting the Lifesaving New Malaria Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization says that the world's first malaria vaccine is finally ready for widespread use, and that it could save countless children.

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The World’s First Malaria Vaccine Is Finally Ready for Rollout

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental gene therapy drastically improved the eyesight — and ability to see color — of volunteers with a rare genetic condition.

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Gene Therapy Restored Vision To Patient Who Hadn’t Seen Colors in Years

By Dan Robitzski

A new MIT research center aims to merge humanity with tech like brain-computer interfacesor robotic limbs in order to treat or erase physical disabilities.

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MIT Establishes New Initiative to Meld Humans and Machines

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA approved a new weight loss drug called semaglutide that doctors say could be a valuable tool in new obesity treatments.

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Doctors Are Really Psyched About This New Weight Loss Drug

By Dan Robitzski

Three members of an independent advisory panel to the FDA resigned in protest after the agency approved a controversial Alzheimer's treatment.

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Furious FDA Advisors Resign to Protest Approval of Alzheimer’s Drug That They Say Doesn’t Work

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a key difference in the way that axolotls and mammals respond to injuries, potentially revealing a pathway to regenerative medicine.

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Scientists Say Humans Have “Untapped” Limb Regeneration Capability

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have developed a highly effective vaccine for malaria that offers far better protection than any past attempts.

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Scientists Say They’ve Invented a “Highly Effective” Malaria Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

Simon Kindleysides, who's paralyzed from the waist down, walked over 100 miles in a powered exoskeleton during February to raise money for the NHS.

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Paralyzed Man Walks More Than 100 Miles in Powered Exoskeleton

By Dan Robitzski

Biologist Jimmy Bernot willingly infected himself with hookworms as part of a clinical trial on an experimental vaccine for the parasite.

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Biologist Deliberately Infects Himself With 50 Hookworms

By Dan Robitzski

A man's vape exploded in his mouth, burning his mouth and shattering several of his teeth, according to a new case report.

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Vape Explodes, Knocking Out Man’s Teeth

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists gene-hacked mice to produce a nerve-healing protein that treated their total paraplegia and allowed them to walk again.

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Genetic Engineering Makes Paralyzed Mice Walk Again

By Dan Robitzski

A new human stem cell derived from fat cells seems to be capable of adapting to and repairing damage in many parts of the body.

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Scientists Reprogram Fat Cells to Repair Injuries

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to electrodes implanted in his brain, a man was able to feed himself with two robotic arms, controlling them with nothing more than his thoughts.

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Watch a Quadriplegic Man Feed Himself With Two Bionic Arms

By Dan Robitzski

TikTok parent company ByteDance is assembling a team of AI experts that it hopes will build AI to develop new pharmaceuticals.

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TikTok Parent Company Says It’ll Develop Drugs Using AI

By Dan Robitzski