The weight-loss drug Wegovy has been cleared as a heart-disease preventative. How does it work? (Image credit: Noctiluxx via Getty Images) The drug semaglutide, sold commercially as Ozempic or Wegovy, is well known for helping people lose significant amounts of weight quick...
He says the drug affects the brain and appears to remove the pleasure received from drinking alcohol. But he also made it clear, "We just don't know yet whether or not the medication is safe and effective for the treatment of alcohol use disorder." ...
The findings, which have not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal, may encourage more people to use the wildly popular weight loss drug, but also potentially help improve insurance coverage, physicians told CNN. "If the Select study is positive, it will add to the growing...
With the growing efficacy and popularity of these medications, drug manufacturers are quickly developing oral forms of the drugs, which researchers believe could limit oversight and cause cases of abuse. Anecdotal clinical experience suggests that there is already widespread knowledge ...
Since being deemed a public health emergency in 2017, opioids are responsible for 72% of drug overdose deaths in the United States, according to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics.
New research from Cedars-Sinai suggests people who are scheduled for certain medical procedures should stop taking popular weight loss drugs in the days or weeks prior to avoid complications. Ad Investigators found glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs)—medications like Ozempic and Weg...
Researchers at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have found that semaglutide, a popular drug used for both diabetes and weight loss, may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) compared to seven other anti-diabetic medications. ...
The article reports on the approval of several weight-loss drugs by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, citing the bestselling diet pill in America, the phentermine, a generic drug that has been around for decades.THOMASKATIEAbramsRachelNew York Times...
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Most people look for weight loss that is not only effective, but extremely fast. This impatience is partly a result of weight gain over a long period of time, and no good way to solve this in the longer term. Once a person reaches a certain weight, their body almost has to lose weigh...