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People Jabbing Themselves With Black Market “GLP-3” Drugs

Some people are hitting a weight loss plateau with GLP-1 agonist drugs like Ozempic, so they’re turning to a stronger variety that promises even more dramatic weight loss — up to more than 70 pounds in some instances, The Atlantic reports. There’s a small wrinkle: the US Food and Drug Administration has yet to officially […]

Devices Target the Gut to Maintain Weight Loss from GLP-1 Drugs

Christina had tried dieting and exercise before. The weight always came off but then crept back on, especially after she gave birth to her son in 2022. She had hoped that a new class of weight-loss drugs might finally offer something different. Obesity treatments such as Wegovy and Zepbound had just arrived on the scene, […]

Audio long read: Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?

Anecdotal stories suggesting that weight-loss drugs can help people shake long-standing addictions have been spreading fast in the past few years, through online forums, weight-loss clinics and news headlines. And now, clinical data are starting to back them up. Over a dozen randomized clinical studies testing whether GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic can suppress addiction are […]

IJMS, Vol. 27, Pages 369: More than Dysbiosis: Imbalance in Humoral and Neuronal Bidirectional Crosstalk Between Gut and Brain in Alzheimer’s Disease

IJMS, Vol. 27, Pages 369: More than Dysbiosis: Imbalance in Humoral and Neuronal Bidirectional Crosstalk Between Gut and Brain in Alzheimer’s Disease International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms27010369 Authors: Gauhar Tassibekova Manzura Zholdassova Nataliia Novosolova Tarja Malm Rashid Giniatullin Almira Kustubayeva The intestinal microbiota, a diverse community of microorganisms residing in the human gut, […]

Pills, TikTok and weight-loss apps: the consumer-driven future of GLP-1s​ – Reuters

Pills, TikTok and weight-loss apps: the consumer-driven future of GLP-1s​  Reuters Devices Target the Gut to Maintain Weight Loss from GLP-1 Drugs  IEEE Spectrum Considering Taking A GLP-1? Here’s How To Protect Your Muscle Mass  MindBodyGreen Insight: Pills, TikTok and weight-loss apps: the consumer-driven future of GLP-1s​  Yahoo GLP-1 Agonists (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro) Market – Global  GlobeNewswire

The Obesity Pill Rush: Healthcare ETFs to Gain as FDA Nods to Novo Drug

The recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of Novo Nordisk’s NVO oral obesity pill, Wegovy, marks a significant turning point in the fiercely competitive weight-loss drug market. This pill, the first GLP-1 tablet specifically cleared for chronic weight management, can materially improve NVO’s long-term profitability and cash flow visibility.  Amid an increasingly fierce […]

Novo Nordisk (NVO) Gets 9% Boost from Wegovy Pill OK

We recently published Big Winners: 10 Stocks Refusing to take a Holiday. Novo Nordisk A/S (NYSE:NVO) is one of the last week’s best performers. Novo Nordisk grew its share prices by 8.96 percent week-on-week as investors cheered the approval of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the pill version of its blockbuster weight loss […]

40 YEARS, 40 QUESTIONS

“When human beings have a love for money, and power, and push to control other human beings, there is an interest in us not getting along,” says Killer Mike. (Photo by Bennett Raglin via Getty Images for BET) Questions by Bob Guccione, Jr., Justine Bateman, Kyle Eustice, Arsenio Orteza, Matt Thompson, A.D. Amorosi, Daniel Scheffler […]

Novo Nordisk just pulled off something nobody saw coming – thestreet.com

Novo Nordisk just pulled off something nobody saw coming  thestreet.com Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls  Reuters FDA approves Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy® pill, the first and only oral GLP-1 for weight loss in adults  PR Newswire NVO’s First Oral Obesity Pill Approval: What Does it Mean for Lilly?  Yahoo Finance FDA approves Wegovy pill for […]