Have you tried numerous avenues to help your chronic illness, obesity or mental health and turned to Ozempic, Wegovy or another GLP-1 drug to address these issues? The New York Times wants to chronicle the journeys of people who are about to start taking one of these medications or who are losing access to them. […]
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Ozempic May Blow the Federal Budget
The U.S. health care system has struggled for decades with the tension between providing incentives for pharmaceutical innovation and keeping breakthroughs affordable for those who would most benefit from them. Even as countries around the world have stepped in to require lower priced drugs for their citizens, the United States has been reticent to do […]
Read MoreFood Marketing in the Ozempic Age
One day about 60 years ago, the comedian Bert Lahr put on a devil suit, held up a potato chip and uttered a phrase that would become a food-marketing milestone: “Betcha can’t eat just one.” Positioning food as deliciously addictive, as Lay’s did in its sly TV commercial, became advertising gold. In the decades that […]
Read MoreEli Lilly, Maker of Mounjaro and Zepbound, Wades Into Telehealth
The pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly wants to make it easier for patients to get its buzzy new weight loss drug, Zepbound, delivered to their door. This week, the company launched a new platform called LillyDirect, which connects people with an independent telehealth company that prescribes obesity medications, as well as third-party services that can fill […]
Read MoreOzempic and Wegovy Users Had Less Risk of Suicidal Thoughts in Large Study
People taking the wildly popular drugs Ozempic, to treat diabetes, and Wegovy, to combat obesity, are slightly less likely to have suicidal thoughts who are not taking them, researchers reported on Friday. Millions of people take Ozempic and Wegovy, which are considered to be among the biggest blockbusters in medical history. But last year a […]
Read MoreWhat if ‘Food Noise’ Is Just … Hunger?
Before 2022, there was barely a whisper about it. Now the concept of “food noise” is ubiquitous on social media; a quick TikTok search, for instance, finds that videos related to “food noise explained” attracted 1.8 billion views as of this summer. Coined to name the experience of thinking about food, longing for food, planning […]
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Read MoreJennifer Weiner on Oprah’s Recent Weight-Loss Announcement
I can’t tell you where I put my car keys or what I had for breakfast three days ago, but I can tell you Oprah Winfrey’s goal weight. My current Apple password and most of my elementary school teachers’ names have been lost to the mists of time. But I can tell you how much […]
Read MoreOprah Says She Is Taking Weight Loss Medication
In 1988, Oprah Winfrey tugged a red wagon filled with fat across the stage of her television show to represent the 67 pounds she said she had lost on a liquid diet. Just a few years later she renounced dieting, but her fluctuating weight and the bias she has experienced because of it have remained […]
Read MoreA New Match for Menopausal Weight Gain: Ozempic
Kymberly Smith had had enough. It was February 2020, and she was grieving the sudden death of her husband when Covid lockdowns began. She was alone, without any access to her support network, and she was “in the throes of menopause.” Eventually, Ms. Smith, 57, started using antidepressants for her grief. She was also on […]
Read MoreFDA Approves Zepbound, A Drug Like Ozempic, for Weight Loss. Here’s What to Know.
The decision by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday to approve the weight loss drug tirzepatide adds a potent new tool to the fast-growing arsenal of obesity drugs. The drug, which will go by the brand name Zepbound, contains the same compound in the sought-after diabetes drug Mounjaro. Many people have used Mounjaro off-label […]
Read MoreHow Much Do Ozempic and Wegovy Cost? Not What You Think.
The problem is daunting: Powerful but expensive new drugs could help many of the 100 million American adults who have obesity and alleviate a grave public health concern. But how can the nation afford lifelong treatments for so many people, with sticker prices for each patient ranging from about $900 to $1,300 every four weeks? […]
Read MoreOzempic Can’t Fix What Our Culture Has Broken
We have become fluent in the new language of pharmacology, diabetes, and weight loss. Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are part of our public lexicon. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists are lifesaving drugs, created to help the hundreds of millions of people with Type 2 diabetes and clinical obesity. They promise to rid the United States […]
Read MoreDoes Ozempic Stop Working Over Time? Why Weight Loss Can Plateau
Kimmy Meinecke blamed herself when she stopped losing weight. For two years, she had been taking a weekly injection of Ozempic to control her diabetes. The medication curbed her appetite so much that sometimes all she ate for dinner was a yogurt or cheese and crackers. But then one day, the scale hit 240, 25 […]
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