How Weight-Loss Drugs Can Upend a Marriage
When Jeanne began to seriously consider taking Zepbound, one of the new-generation weight-loss drugs, she had the briefest of conversations with her husband, Javier. They were in
The weight-loss drugs being tested in 2025: will they beat Ozempic?
In the first half of 2025, Ozempic developer Novo Nordisk in Bagsværd, Denmark, expects results from a second phase III trial of its experimental drug CagriSema — a combination of semaglutide and a medicine called cagrilintide. People on CagriSema lost about 23% of their body weight in a 68-week study, outperforming both drugs when taken alone.
Prescriptions for weight loss drugs are skyrocketing, especially among young women. Experts think they know why.
The use of blockbuster weight loss drugs has surged among young women, for whom the treatments can often be "liberating."
Is the promise of more affordable weight loss drugs too good to be true? Compounded semaglutide, explained.
Compounded semaglutide is legal, but it's not regulated in the same way as medications like Ozempic and Wegovy.
Drug industry groups target Hims & Hers Super Bowl ad touting weight loss drug
Drug industry calls out telehealth company Hims & Hers' Super Bowl ad touting its knock-off weight loss medications.
Hims & Hers responds to controversy over Super Bowl weight loss drug commercial: 'We're calling for change'
Hims & Hers Health will have a commercial air during Super Bowl LIX. It’s already courting controversy, with calls to bar the game’s host, Fox, from broadcasting it. Why? Experts and advocates in the health care space are saying that the 60-second spot — which deems obesity “America’s deadliest epidemic,
Weight Loss Drug Super Bowl Ad Raises Questions About Compounded Vs. Branded Meds
An ad airing Super Bowl Sunday features “America’s deadliest epidemic,” obesity, and what can be done about it with the use of “affordable” compounded weight loss drugs.
Zepbound sales keep soaring, even as weight loss drug growth slows
Sales of Eli Lilly’s (LLY) blockbuster weight-loss drug Zepbound surged in the fourth quarter despite missing the company’s ...
Lilly needs a plan to spur weight-loss drug sales, investors say
Eli Lilly investors and analysts said they want to hear details from the company on how exactly it plans to grow U.S. sales ...
Forget Wegovy: Novo Nordisk May Have a New Billion-Dollar Weight Loss Drug On Its Hands
In fact, Novo Nordisk recently reported positive results for one of its anti-obesity candidates that puts its current ...
Blockbuster weight-loss drugs flood grey market, used without supervision: ‘This trend is triggering paralysis of gut,’ warn doctors
Tirzepatide, found in Mounjaro and Zepbound, mimics both GIP and GLP-1 hormones to activate insulin production. Semaglutide, ...
Lilly forecasts 2025 profit largely above estimates on weight-loss drug strength
Eli Lilly forecast annual profit largely above Wall Street estimates on Thursday, as it prepares to launch its popular ...
WVU Medicine leads trial of procedure to maintain weight loss without GLP-1 drugs
WVU Medicine is playing a lead role in a national clinical study of a minimally invasive surgical procedure for people who've ...
Super Bowl ad sparks controversy over cut-rate Wegovy alternative
Hims & Hers offers a copycat of the blockbuster weight-loss drug at a fraction of the cost. But it might be a short-lived ...
Lilly reassures investors that weight-loss drug demand is strong, shares rise
Eli Lilly on Thursday suggested that demand for its popular diabetes and weight-loss treatments was not a concern, easing ...