A group of Canadian undergrads is using plants to revolutionize medicine. Faced with soaring drug prices and global shortages ...

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Semaglutide is already available in Ireland through diabetes medication Ozempic. However, its producer Novo Nordisk uses the ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer “Microdosing” GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic is gaining attention on social media, but doctors say it ...

Distraught Myanmar relief camp dwellers received final handouts from the World Food Programme on Wednesday as the UN agency begins halting aid to a million people in the country because funding ...

Shares of Novo Nordisk A/S were getting hit hard Monday, after the maker of Ozempic and Wegovy, the diabetes and obesity treatments, revealed data showing that its new weight-loss drug candidate ...

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For some patients, the speed of weight loss can lead to the undesired cosmetic effect of a gaunt face (colloquially called "Ozempic face"), particularly in patients with less skin elasticity ...

I’m holding my Ozempic pen, a prefilled injection ... But then I realise I have no more needles left – each pen has four doses and I’m trying to get six doses out of it.

open image in gallery Ozempic and other weight loss drugs are setting us up for unrealistic beauty standards – I threw my pen in the dustbin (Getty) But now it’s an open secret: celebrities ...