Britain prevents Ozempic reaching people who want to lose weight because of a national semaglutide shortage. But some pay ...

As doctors in the United States scale back their prescription of opioid painkillers, a new option for hard-to-treat pain is taking root: ketamine, the decades-old surgical drug that is now a ...

Dr. Lee Kaplan took the stage with an urgent message, telling fellow physicians they have a powerful weapon to fight the ...

Whether for weight loss or diabetes management, Canadian pharmacists say demand for Ozempic prescriptions does not appear to be slowing, despite a proposed lawsuit over alleged side effects.

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Ozempic is one of a group of "semaglutide" medicines that have taken social media by storm over the last year.

Many pharmacists are uncertain about how to deal with pre-printed prescriptions: prescription pads preprinted with the drug name, quantity, and, less frequently, directions for use. Although these ...

Trish Webster, 56, was prescribed Ozempic to help her squeeze into her dream dress for her daughter’s nuptials. Ozempic is a medication approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for people ...

It’s unusual for a medication to become a household name; even more uncommon for its branding to become, like Advil, shorthand for an entire class of products; and rarest of all, for it to ...

Glen Patton says he's not one to panic. But a global shortage of the diabetes drug Ozempic has diabetics like him rattled — he says access to the medication could mean the difference between ...

Drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk both reported strong third-quarter sales growth Thursday, citing the performance of the GLP-1 class of diabetes and anti-obesity drugs that are in high demand.