Next Gen Weight Loss Drugs Are Coming for Ozempic’s Throne
The future of weight loss is fast approaching. At a recent scientific conference, drug companies showed off a variety of next-generation drugs for both obesity and type 2 diabetes. Some…
Supplies of Wegovy and Other Weight Loss Drugs Can Now Be Tracked by Patients
As Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly struggle to keep up with soaring demand for their popular diabetes and weight loss drugs, healthcare companies are introducing supply trackers to help patients…
Hims & Hers Will Sell Wegovy-Like Weight Loss Drugs for $199
The millennial-skewed telehealth platform Hims & Hers announced Monday that is now offering customers a compounded version of semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs like Ozempic and…
Bernie Sanders Is Taking on Ozempic’s ‘Astronomically High’ Price Tag
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is taking aim at one of Big Pharma’s newest cash cows: the latest generation of effective obesity medications. On Wednesday, Sanders’ office announced that the senator…
NASA Spacecraft Sees a Lava Lake With Islands on Jupiter’s Moon Io
It could be worse. At least these Escherichia coli bacteria don’t have fangs.Illustration: Kateryna Kon (Shutterstock) Eat your heart out, A24: Some real-life bacterial germs are literally hungry for our…
The Newest Obesity Drug May Also Combat Sleep Apnea
The newest weight loss drug on the market, Zepbound, might also help keep people’s snoring down. On Wednesday, Eli Lilly announced the preliminary results of two Phase III trials testing…
NASA Holds Out Hope of Recovering Voyager 1 Probe
A dose of a Moderna covid-19 vaccine being prepared.Photo: Sholten Singer (AP) Here’s one weird trick for making the most out of your next two-dose vaccine: get a shot in…
The Newest Obesity Drug Might Do Wonders for Blood Pressure, Too
The newest obesity drug on the market, Eli Lilly’s tirzepatide, may also help keep people’s blood pressure in check, new research out Monday has shown. The study looked at clinical…
Most People Who Stop Taking Wegovy/Ozempic Keep the Weight Off, Study Finds
A popular class of weight loss drugs may offer more lasting success than assumed, new data from Epic Research suggests. The study of medical records found that a slight majority…
Ozempic, Wellbutrin, and Hundreds of Other Drugs Just Got More Expensive
Another year, another round of inscrutable price increases for many prescription drugs. Over 700 medicines are seeing their list prices shoot up this January, according to an analysis by the…