Brand-name semaglutide (Wegovy and Ozempic) comes in a prefilled injection pen. This pen is single-use and contains the dose of semaglutide that’s appropriate for you at the time. Compounded ...

Two U.S. senators wrote a letter to the Food and Drug Administration on Friday expressing concerns about an upcoming Super ...

Many Americans spend nearly $1,000 per month on semaglutide drugs, such as Ozempic, according to the Yale School of Medicine. The current list price for Ozempic is $968.52 per pen without insurance.

Alexandra Sowa's new book The Ozempic Revolution is intended to be the "first comprehensive user guide" to GLP-1 drugs like ...

Hims & Hers’ Super Bowl ad plugs its compounded weight loss drugs as the “affordable” solution to a “sick system,” but many concerns about safety still swirl around these forms of the ...

Is Compounded Semaglutide Effective for Weight Loss? This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Is compounded semaglutide effective for weight loss? Here’s the short ...

A Phase 3 clinical trial found that injections of the semaglutide medication once weekly reduced the risk of kidney disease worsening by 24% in people who also had diabetes. It also reduced the ...

Semaglutide is a GLP-1 receptor agonist that selectively binds to and activates the GLP-1 receptor mimicking its activity. GLP-1 is an incretin hormone and enterogastrone that stimulates insulin ...

At least nine patients using the glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists semaglutide and tirzepatide developed ophthalmic complications, of whom seven had nonarteritic anterior ischemic ...