Compounded weight-loss medications such as those promoted in the Hims & Hers commercial aren’t approved by the Food and Drug ...

Sold under brand names including Wegovy and Ozempic, semaglutide works by mimicking a gut hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), hence the technical term for it is a GLP-1 receptor agonist.

Miracle drug innovations — such as those that sparked the meteoric rise of Wegovy and Zepbound — could come every couple of years thanks to new technologies, former U.S. Treasury Secretary ...

New research supports what some people taking the blockbuster weight loss drug semaglutide – better known by the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy – have experienced: that it eases alcohol ...

Novo Nordisk's high dose Wegovy (semaglutide) has shown improved weight loss while remaining safe and tolerable. In the Phase IIIb STEP UP trial, 7.2mg Wegovy demonstrated statistically ...

Veru said Monday that its investigational drug helped preserve lean mass in patients taking the obesity treatment Wegovy, though some experts were skeptical that the topline results were adequate ...

This class of drugs, known as glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, or GLP-1s, also includes Wegovy and Zepbound. GLP-1s were developed to treat diabetes, but they have become popular weight ...