Stanford Medicine researchers have identified a promising, naturally occurring molecule that could help people lose ...

Semaglutide has a boxed warning for the risk of thyroid cancer. A boxed warning is the most serious warning from the FDA. It isn’t known for certain whether semaglutide increases the risk of ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Weight loss drugs like Ozempic may be contributing ...

You know Ozempic can help with weight loss, but how long can you stay on Ozempic exactly? Unfortunately, there isn’t a solid ...

Contrave (naltrexone/bupropion) and Wegovy (semaglutide) are prescription drugs used for weight management. Contrave comes as an oral tablet, and Wegovy is a liquid ...

Beyond type 2 diabetes and weight loss, GLP-1 agonists can also help lower blood pressure, improve lipid disorders, reduce ...

A new study suggests that medications commonly used for diabetes, including the popular drug Ozempic, may help reduce the ...

BRINP2-related peptide, or BRP, is a naturally occurring molecule that can suppress appetite and promote weight loss in mice ...

The EMA, as well as the FDA in the US, have approved labelling for Wegovy that mentions that semaglutide has been ... people with a family history of thyroid cancer. In a statement, the EMA ...

COMMENT: The new craze of using lower-than-recommended dosages of weight loss drugs to slim down might sound tempting, says ...

Animal studies have linked semaglutide (the active ingredient in Ozempic) to a higher risk of thyroid cancer. However, results from animal studies do not always apply to humans. It’s not known ...

Ozempic and other similar drugs must be injected. Messer describes the needle as “small, the size of two human hairs.” ...