Ozempic is a brand name semaglutide, a medication used to treat type 2 diabetes. It’s also used as an off-label use for weight loss. Wegovy is another brand name with the same a ...

Eli Lilly's experimental weight loss drug, retatrutide, has demonstrated encouraging results in helping obese adults lose weight.

Although it is best known for treating type 2 diabetes, semaglutide — known by its brandname Ozempic — may also be effective ...

My doctor increased my dose to 1.7 mg of Wegovy instead of 2 mg of Ozempic. I find myself continuing to crave sweets and have gained 8 pounds in around six months. I’m wondering if any studies explain ...

Ozempic is approved for type 2 diabetes, while its counterpart, Wegovy, is approved for treating obesity. Both are made by Novo Nordisk. Eli Lilly also offers a diabetes medication, Mounjaro ...

A first randomized clinical trial shows that semaglutide use in type 1 diabetes is associated with improved glucose ...

Obese adults who took the weekly injection lost up to 22% of their starting weight after 11 months — compared to just 14% over 15 months for semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy.

Those in the jab trials, however, kept off between 10 and 25 per cent of their body weight over the same timeframe, depending ...

That's the provocative question posed by Nina King, a 27-year-old Ph.D. student whose theory on the cultural impact of Ozempic—a weight-loss drug developed to treat type 2 diabetes—has gone ...

Specifically, the drug treats blood sugar in Type 2 diabetics. However, take a look at any public discussion around it, and the primacy of weight loss is clear. Ozempic itself is a metonym for ...

For example, some insurance covers Ozempic for prediabetes, and other times insurance will only cover Ozempic if you already have Type 2 diabetes. Ozempic is more likely to be covered by insurance if ...