Ozempic's popularity, fueled by Hollywood, social media influencers and ubiquitous ads on social media, means there are people taking these drugs who want to lose a few pounds for cosmetic reasons.
After three months of weekly injections, patients on Ozempic lost 3.6% of their body weight, on average, while those on Mounjaro lost an average of 5.9%.
Patients with Type 2 diabetes who were prescribed drugs known as glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1, developed fewer obesity-related cancers than patients who were treated with insulin.
Rates of COVID-19 have surged in Florida emergency rooms over recent weeks, according to new figures from the CDC, and are now near peaks not seen since the worst days of this past winter's wave of the virus.
The cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. has surged nearly 40% over the past decade, easily outstripping the pace of inflation, according to a new study by GoodRx.