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

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.

Novo Nordisk Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed

By Victor Tangermann

As a federal crackdown on Ozempic-style copycats looms, Hims is trying a unique new strategy to lobby lawmakers.

Health & Medicine

Hims Is Begging Customers to Lobby the FDA to Keep Its Ozempic Knockoffs Legal

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.

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

In a ginormous new study, researchers have begun mapping the manifold health benefits of drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy beyond weight loss.

Health & Medicine

Huge Study Finds Constellation of Health Benefits for Ozempic Beyond Weight Loss

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.

RX and Medicine

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.

RX and Medicine

Woman Annoyed When She Gets on Wegovy and It Does Nothing

By Noor Al-Sibai

$Novo Nordisk has launched its weight-loss drug Wegovy in China — but for a tiny fraction of what it's charging customers in the US.$

Wait, Why Is Novo Selling Weight Loss Drugs for So Cheap in China?

By Victor Tangermann

Eli Lilly, the maker of the popular weight loss drug Zepbound, revealed a "shocking first miss" during its most recent quarterly sales.

Eli Lilly Has a Major Problem With Its Weight Loss Drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro

By Victor Tangermann

In a groundbreaking new study, Ozempic was found to be so effective at treating arthritis that people no longer needed treatment.

Semaglutide So Effective at Treating Arthritis That Patients Were “More or Less Were Treated Out of the Study”

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

RX and Medicine

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

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.

RX and Medicine

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a huge new study, researchers have found more evidence than ever that drugs like Ozempic can help with alcohol and opioid addiction.

Health & Medicine

Ozempic Could Be Used to Treat Alcohol and Drug Addiction, Study Finds

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

Ozempic-curious people are taking a novel approach to using the blockbuster weight loss drug — and some doctors are even doing it themselves.

Health & Medicine

People Are Apparently Microdosing Ozempic

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

As GLP-1 weight loss drugs fly off shelves, Kourtney Kardashian Barker is getting in on the hustle — well, sort of.

Kourtney Kardashian Is Selling a Scam Weight Loss Treatment That Says “GLP-1” on the Bottle But Isn’t a GLP-1

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.

RX and Medicine

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 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

A series of new studies showed that taking Ozempic reduced death rates from all causes, which may be a sign that it combats aging.

Ozempic Actually Delays Aging, Scientist Claims

By Frank Landymore

The new class of weight loss drugs known as GLP-1s, which includes Ozempic and Wegovy, seem to have a trial sponsorship problem.

Researchers Say There’s Something Fishy With All These Studies Showing Huge Health Benefits From Ozempic-Like Drugs

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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New Study Finds Wegovy Reduces COVID Death Risk By 33 Percent

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new study, researchers have established a troubling link between semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic, with suicidal thoughts.

New Study Establishes Link Between Ozempic and Suicidal Thoughts

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Food and Drug and Administration warned about the dangers of self-administering injections using compounded forms of Ozempic.

FDA Says People Are Taking 20 Times the Proper Dose of Ozempic and Overdosing

By Frank Landymore

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

RX and Medicine

Ozempic-Style Drug Slows the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease, Experiment Finds

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.

RX and Medicine

Drug Companies Have a Sneaky Idea to Get Insurance to Pay for Drugs Like Zepbound

By Noor Al-Sibai

An analysis of over 100,000 medical records found that Ozempic users had a far lower dementia risk than those that took other diabetes drugs.

Neuroscience and Brain

Ozempic Linked to Significantly Reduced Dementia Risk

By Frank Landymore

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

RX and Medicine

Experts Not Convinced That Ozempic Is Causing Blindness

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.

RX and Medicine

Active Ingredient in Ozempic Linked to Condition That Causes Blindness

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.

RX and Medicine

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders Demands Drug Companies Cut Price of Ozempic and Other New Weight Loss Drugs

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.

RX and Medicine

Scary Counterfeit Ozempic Contains the Wrong Drug

By Noor Al-Sibai

Medical practitioners are finding that new obesity drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound are causing other chronic diseases to go away.

Doctors Surprised When Patients Who Start Semaglutide Are Frequently Cured of Other Conditions

By Victor Tangermann

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

RX and Medicine

China’s Creating Cheapo Versions of Ozempic That Could Majorly Shake Up the Market

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.

RX and Medicine

So, So Many Kids Are Taking So, So Much Ozempic

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.

RX and Medicine

Online Pharmacy Launches Cheaper Version of Ozempic

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

RX and Medicine

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.

RX and Medicine

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.

RX and Medicine

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

RX and Medicine

Costco Now Offering Ozempic Prescriptions

By Sharon Adarlo

Senator Bernie Sanders is calling on Ozempic and Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk to slash its prices for the treatments in the US.

Health & Medicine

Bernie Sanders Demands Cheaper Ozempic

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that producing drugs like Ozempic only costs anywhere from $0.89 to $4.73 for a monthly supply.

Ozempic Is Being Sold for Hundreds of Times What It Costs to Make

By Victor Tangermann

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

RX and Medicine

People Unexpectedly Getting Pregnant on Ozempic and Wegovy

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a recent interview with Jimmy Fallon "The Tonight Show," comedian Tracy Morgan said he was able to "out-eat Ozempic."

Health & Medicine

Tracy Morgan Says He Actually Managed to Gain Weight on Ozempic With Superhuman Eating Abilities

By Victor Tangermann

Medicare could soon start to pay for weight-loss treatment drug Wegovy, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Health & Medicine

Medicare Says It Will Start Paying for Wegovy

By Victor Tangermann

Early results of a weight loss drug by Danish pharmaceutical Novo Nordisk show that it may be even more effective than semaglutide.

Health & Medicine

New Weight Loss Pill More Effective Than Ozempic, Tests Find

By Victor Tangermann

The blockbuster weight loss drug semaglutide can cut the progression of diabetic kidney disease, according to its manufacturer Novo Nordisk.

Semaglutide Can Cut Diabetic Kidney Disease Progression

By Sharon Adarlo

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.

RX and Medicine

Woman Takes Grey Market Ozempic, Lands in Hospital

By Noor Al-Sibai

Oprah Winfrey is leaving Weight Watchers after nearly a decade — and after admitting in recent months that she'd used weight loss drugs.

Health & Medicine

Oprah Exits Weight Watchers Board After Admitting She Took Weight Loss Meds

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.

RX and Medicine

Indian Drugmakers Whipping Up Generic Versions of Wegovy

By Noor Al-Sibai

A rival to weight loss drug semaglutide has been shown to drastically improve people's blood pressure after 36 weeks of taking the medication.

Mounjaro Patients Show Hugely Improved Blood Pressure

By Sharon Adarlo

Pharmaceuticals and AI are two of the most-hyped money-makers in the world right now — but not because of what they're selling.

The Pharma Company Making Ozempic Is Worth Five Times What OpenAI Is

By Noor Al-Sibai

The news about semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, keeps getting more and more surprising.

Health & Medicine

New Study Contradicts Patients Regaining Weight If They Stop Taking Ozempic

By Noor Al-Sibai

Generic Ozempic is part of a huge cottage industry — and in the case of one online pharmacy, it may have been deadly.

Health & Medicine

Knockoff Ozempic Pharmacy Went Out of Business After an Executive’s Suicide

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.

RX and Medicine

The FDA Says Ozempic Probably Won’t Make You Suicidal

By Noor Al-Sibai

The investigation comes after the FDA received reports linking these side effects to semaglutide drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic.

FDA Investigating Link Between Semaglutide and Hair Loss, Suicidal Thoughts

By Frank Landymore

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

RX and Medicine

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.

RX and Medicine

Thousands of People Have Reportedly Overdosed on Ozempic

By Noor Al-Sibai

In yet another potential triumph for the popular weight loss drug, scientists have found that semaglutide may be able to help alcoholics.

Scientists Say Semaglutide Appears to Help Alcoholics, Too

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.

RX and Medicine

Woman Sues to Get Wegovy Covered by Her Health Insurance

By Noor Al-Sibai