Ozempic helps people fight urge to drink alcohol in new study
A new study suggests that medications that have transformed the treatment of obesity may also help people drink less alcohol.
Weight-loss jabs ‘slash alcohol cravings and curb heavy drinking’
A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that semaglutide has benefits other than weight loss or controlling diabetes.
My middle-schooler started Ozempic. I am not a failure at parenting!
Columnist Teri Sforza writes that childhood obesity in California is on the rise, state data shows. Free school meals have ...
Ozempic shows some promise for alcohol use disorder
Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster GLP-1 diabetes drug Ozempic led to improvements in some measures of alcohol use disorder in a ...
Ozempic 'Significantly' Lowered 'Alcohol Craving' in First Clinical Trial, with Those Taking the Drug Drinking 40% Less
A new study (the first clinical trial of its kind) has shown that the GLP-1 agonist semaglutide — known by the brand name ...
Ozempic patients could be four to seven times more likely to suffer vision loss.
Ozempic made headlines after a study came out linking this and similar medications like Wegovy to an eye condition that can cause irreversible damage and permanent vision loss, including total ...
Philadelphia Tribune1d
Low doses of Ozempic reduced weekly alcohol cravings, study says
Novo Nordisk A/S’s Ozempic helped reduce alcohol cravings in a small study, more evidence that the popular injections may ...
Ozempic Can Curb Drinking, New Research Shows
A paper published Wednesday offers the strongest evidence yet that this is more than just anecdote, or a placebo effect: It ...
New Atlas1d
Ozempic dials down alcohol cravings for people wanting to cut back
In 2022, when the surge in popularity of the GLP-1 class of weight loss and diabetes drugs really began, stories of surprise ...
Ozempic shown to reduce drinking in first trial in alcohol-use disorder
For years, people taking Ozempic or other drugs in the same class for diabetes and weight loss have noticed the medicines don ...
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About half of Americans approve of using weight-loss drugs to treat obesity, AP-NORC poll finds
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research looks at what U.S. adults think about weight-loss drugs like Ozempic ... up a dosage of Wegovy, a drug used for weight loss ...