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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.
RX and Medicine

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

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.
RX and Medicine

New Weight Loss Drug Has Small Problem: Uncontrollable Vomiting

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. 
RX and Medicine

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.
Developments

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.
Studies

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.
RX and Medicine

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.
Studies

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.
Developments

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

By Frank Landymore

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
RX and Medicine

Oprah Questions Need For WeightWatchers Now That We Have Wegovy

By Noor Al-Sibai

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.
RX and Medicine

Wegovy Approved to Cut Heart Disease and Stroke Risk

By Noor Al-Sibai

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.
Studies

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

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

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

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.
Developments

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

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

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

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.
Studies

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

The food industry is apparently in a tizzy over the appetite-suppressing semaglutide — and even the megastore Walmart is feeling the burn. 
Food

Walmart Spies on Ozempic Patients’ Shopping Habits, Finds They’re Buying Less Food

By Noor Al-Sibai

As Ozempic and Wegovy continue to rush off the selves, snack industry investors are concerned about its appetite suppressing qualities. 
Food

Snack Food Investors Concerned About the Rise of Semaglutide

By Noor Al-Sibai

This snack food overlord is readying himself and his company's delicious treats for war against weight loss drugs like Ozempic.
Food

Snack Food CEO Vows to Battle Ozempic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

The FDA Says Ozempic Might Block Your Intestines

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sketchy sites are purporting to sell semaglutide, the active ingredient in Wegovy, without a prescription. Google is cashing in.
Google

Google Seems to Be Running a Lot of Ads for Black Market Semaglutide

By Noor Al-Sibai

As the Ozempic craze continues in kind, websites are now purporting to sell knockoffs of the injectable drug without a prescription.
Health & Medicine

Sites Spring Up to Sell Semaglutide for Cheap With No Prescription

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some patients taking semaglutide medications Ozempic and Wegovy are experiencing gastroparesis, or stomach paralysis.
Developments

Doctors Say People Taking Semaglutide Are Suffering From Stomach Paralysis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Hot New Weight Loss Drug Is Rapidly Aging Users’ Faces
Health & Medicine

A Hot New Weight Loss Drug Is Rapidly Aging Users’ Faces

By Victor Tangermann

Despite its very recent approval, startups are already lining up to prescribe a new weight loss drug called Wegovy, a tradename for semaglutide.
Health & Medicine

Startups Are Rushing to Prescribe a New Weight Loss Drug, But Questions Remain

By Simon Spichak