#weight-loss-medications

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Medicine
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

A New Class of Drugs Is Pushing the Limits of Weight Loss

New amylin-based and combined amylin–GLP-1 drugs can produce greater weight loss with fewer bothersome side effects, expanding medical obesity treatment options.
Public health
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Crime gangs in UK start making own branded weight-loss drugs

Organised crime now manufactures branded, counterfeit weight-loss drugs with professional packaging and unlicensed active ingredients, posing a major public-safety and enforcement threat.
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 weeks ago

JUST IN: Trump Announces Big Pharma Discounts of Weight Loss Drugs Ozempic and Zepbound

During a press conference in the Oval Office and surrounded by many of his most senior aides, including HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr, and Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump revealed that two of the world's largest pharmaceutical manufacturers, Eli Lilly and Novartis, will offer weight loss drugs at drastic discounts. So far, never heard anything bad about them, only good about them, Trump ad libbed from his prepared remarks before asking his Kennedy, Is there anything bad about them, Bobby?
US politics
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
3 weeks ago

Why Drugs Like Ozempic Can Make People Drink Less Alcohol

GLP-1 diabetes and weight-loss drugs reduce alcohol consumption and intoxication by affecting both brain reward pathways and gut physiology.
Science
fromBBC
1 month ago

Witness History - GLP-1: A breakthrough for diabetes and obesity - BBC Sounds

Svetlana Mojsov discovered GLP-1 in the 1980s, enabling development of GLP-1–based treatments for type 2 diabetes and later for weight loss.
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