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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

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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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.

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Novo Nordisk To Slash Prices On Buzzy Drugs Ozempic and Wegovy

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

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

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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.

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People Unexpectedly Getting Pregnant on Ozempic and Wegovy

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Indian Drugmakers Whipping Up Generic Versions of Wegovy

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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New Study Contradicts Patients Regaining Weight If They Stop Taking Ozempic

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

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.

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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

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.

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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.

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.

Snack Food Investors Concerned About the Rise of Semaglutide

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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.

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Sites Spring Up to Sell Semaglutide for Cheap With No Prescription

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

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

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

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

By Simon Spichak