Ozempic, the trade name for the medication semaglutide, wasn't designed to be a diet drug. "This is really the first major weight loss drug in the age of social media," he tells ABC RN's Rear Vision. "This combination of drugs showed dramatic weight loss results in a small sample but was never evaluated in a clinical study," Professor Cowley says. …
WASHINGTON — An increasing number of fake prescription pills that contain potentially deadly fentanyl are helping drive overdose death rates to record levels in the U.S., including some now manufactured in rainbow colors designed to look like candy, federal officials said Tuesday. Vastly powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl are behind record overdose deaths in the U.S. Law enforcement officials nationwide …
