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

Scientists Find Evidence That Ozempic Can Reverse Aging

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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.
RX and Medicine

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.
RX and Medicine

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.
RX and Medicine

Ozempic-Style Drugs Linked To Hundreds of Illnesses and Deaths

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

"MEDVi," a sketchy online market for GLP-1 drugs, is using AI to spin up terrible ads — and, insidiously, to deepfake pictures of "patients."
Artificial Intelligence

This Sleazy GLP-1 Prescription Site Is Using Deepfaked “Before-and-After” Photos of Fake Patients, and Running Ads Showing AI-Generated Ozempic Boxes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A wellness influencer named Janelle Rohner has come under fire after withholding the fact that she was using a GLP-1 weight loss drug.
Health & Medicine

Weight Loss Influencer’s Fans Angry When She Reveals How She Was Really Pulling It Off

By Victor Tangermann

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

Weight Watchers Goes Bankrupt After Rise of Ozempic-Like Drugs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Eli Lilly announced clinical trial results this week for a daily pill to treat obesity and diabetes. Its name is absolutely terrible.
Developments

Eli Lilly’s New Weight Loss Drug May Have the Worst Name in Pharmaceutical History

By Victor Tangermann

A new GLP-1 drug, orforglipron, comes in pill form and appears to be roughly as effective as injected drugs like Ozempic.
Developments

Human Experiments on GLP-1 Pill Looking Extremely Promising

By Frank Landymore

Shares of Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, plummeted this week.
Developments

Novo Nordisk Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed

By Victor Tangermann

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

Students Concoct Ingenious Scheme To Grow Ozempic At Home

By Noor Al-Sibai

As drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro continue to skyrocket in usage, doctors are encountering more cases linking them to blindness.
Studies

Evidence Is Growing That Ozempic Can Cause Blindness

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. 
RX and Medicine

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Pharmacists Warn That People With Eating Disorders Are Misusing Wegovy Prescriptions

By Noor Al-Sibai