The demand for bariatric operations dropped sharply last year as use of anti-obesity drugs such as Wegovy surged, study finds ...

Drugs such as Wegovy, Ozempic, and Saxenda have quickly become household names. But are these weight loss medications right ...

The odds for aspiration is greatest in the first weeks after a GLP-1 med is prescribed, since the delay in stomach emptying ...

The Danish drug company Novo Nordisk has been sanctioned by the UK pharmaceutical industry regulator over the way it has ...

These include commonly prescribed drugs such as Ozempic or Wegovy (semaglutide), Saxenda (liraglutide), Zepbound (tirzepatide ...

Not everybody loses the same amount of weight on medications such as Ozempic and Saxenda—treatment indication, dosage, and ...

Expiry of Novo Nordisk’s UK patent for Saxenda seen as offering a ‘dry run’ for future generic versions of Ozempic ...

Health secretary Wes Streeting announced weight loss injections could be used to get people living with obesity "back to work ...

In 2020, the first weight loss injection available in Britain was Saxenda (or liraglutide). It’s taken once a day with a self-injecting pen and in trials around 56 per cent of patients lost 10 ...

The drug, liraglutide, is sold under the brand names Victoza and Saxenda. Liraglutide was not originally developed as a weight-loss treatment. Like semaglutide (Ozempic), it originally treated ...