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The news about semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, keeps getting more and more surprising. As a new survey from the health software company Epic Systems indicates, two-thirds of patients who used semaglutide injections correctly were able to keep off the weight they'd lost for as long as a year after discontinuing their […]

Good news: suicidal ideation is, according to the Food and Drug Administration, probably not among the list of bizarre side effects associated with semaglutide, the active ingredient in the diabetes injectable Ozempic and its weight management sister drug Wegovy. As the FDA said in a press release, the agency hasn't yet found any "clear relationship" between […]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating whether semaglutide, the active ingredient of weight loss drugs such as Wegovy and diabetes medications like Ozempic, causes hair loss and suicidal thoughts, CNN reports. Semaglutide belongs to a category of drugs which work by mimicking the GLP-1 hormone in the gut, which can affect the […]

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Semaglutide, the active ingredient in the injectable diabetes drug Ozempic and its weight-loss sister prescription Wegovy, seems to have yet another unfortunate side effect: putting back on the weight, and then some, when one stops taking it. As two women told The Messenger in interviews about their experiences with the injectable drugs, the weight gain wasn't […]

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