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The drug is set to be available on the NHS for weight loss soon, but one expert has flagged some potential risks that come with it.
The price of Wegovy, Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster weight-loss drug, is $1,349 a month in the U.S.; in Germany, it’s $328. The U.S. price for Keytruda, a cancer treatment, is $191,000 ...
Costly drugs: The drugs prescribed to fight obesity have been driving up the cost of Medi-Cal, the state program that ...
Weight loss drugs have become an increasingly popular, but controversial, way of quickly shedding extra pounds over the past ...
Popular drugs for weight loss are now being prescribed to kids as young as 12. It’s been nearly two years since the FDA approved their use in kids, but some are questioning if these drugs are safe for ...
While those taking semaglutide (Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro) lost double the amount of weight compared with people ...
Federal regulators have accepted Novo Nordisk’s application to produce a pill version of its injectable weight-loss ...
Less than 3% of all people in the U.S. who are eligible for injectable weight loss drugs get a prescription for it, a new ...
Weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy would no longer be covered by California's health insurance for low-income people under ...
Though Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk have recently taken steps to make their uber-popular GLP-1 drugs more affordable for ...
California is not required by federal law to cover the cost of the weight loss drugs in its Medi-Cal program. Instead, the state opted to include them. Under Newsom’s proposed cuts, when Ozempic is ...
In a 72-week trial, people taking Zepbound lost 50 pounds on average, compared with about 33 pounds for people taking Wegovy.