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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

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

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

As next-generation weight-loss treatments like Wegovy fly off the shelves, scientists are working on an exercise pill.
RX and Medicine

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.
RX and Medicine

Oprah Questions Need For WeightWatchers Now That We Have Wegovy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Ozempic, the viral TikTok weight loss drug, is so popular that its creator has declared a shortage — wreaking havoc on the lives of actual diabetics.
Developments

So Many People Are Using a Diabetes Drug for Weight Loss That Actual Diabetics Are Having Trouble Getting It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Doctors Are Really Psyched About This New Weight Loss Drug

By Dan Robitzski

On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new weight-loss drug for the first time since 2014.
Health & Medicine

FDA Approves “Game-Changer” Weight Loss Drug

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, the type 2 diabetes treatment drug called semaglutide could be an effective way to reduce weight in obese patients.
Health & Medicine

New Weight Loss Drug Hailed as “Game Changer”

By Victor Tangermann

This Pill Could Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
Health & Medicine

This Pill Could Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

By Kristin Houser

Losing Weight in the Future Will Not Be One Size Fits All
Health & Medicine

Losing Weight in the Future Will Not Be One Size Fits All

By Abby Norman

Scientists Discovered a Protein that Could Lead to a Treatment for Obesity
Treatments

Scientists Discovered a Protein that Could Lead to a Treatment for Obesity

By Kyree Leary

Active Brain Stimulation Shown to Help Tackle Obesity
Science & Energy

Active Brain Stimulation Shown to Help Tackle Obesity

By Joseph Libunao