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Novo Nordisk, the drugmaker behind Ozempic, is laying off thousands of workers as it struggles against competition from other pharma firms.
RX and Medicine

The Inventor of Ozempic Is Suddenly Sacking Huge Numbers of Employees

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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

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

City employees in NYC had insurance coverage for GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound for less than a year before learning it was mistake.
RX and Medicine

New York City Utterly Screwed Up Insurance for Employees Taking GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs

By Noor Al-Sibai

While seeking re-election, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro is making a huge campaign promise: free Ozempic for all.
RX and Medicine

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

Novo Nordisk, the manufacturer behind Ozempic and Wegovy, has another weight loss medication in the works with some unsettling side effects.
RX and Medicine

Novo Nordisk’s New Weight Loss Drug Shows Ominous Psychiatric Side Effects

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. 
Treatments

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.
RX and Medicine

New Weight Loss Drug Has Small Problem: Uncontrollable Vomiting

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

The makers of Zepbound are offering a massive price cut — if you're willing to purchase and dose your syringes out yourself. 
RX and Medicine

Eli Lilly Offering Way Cheaper Zepbound, If You’re Willing to Buy Your Own Syringes

By Noor Al-Sibai

Eli Lilly, the pharma firm behind Zepbound and Mounjaro is, ironically, calling people out for using the drugs to lose weight. 
RX and Medicine

Eli Lilly Blasts Use of Mounjaro and Zepbound for “Cosmetic Weight Loss”

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.
Developments

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

By Victor Tangermann