Ever since college, Brad Jobling struggled with his weight, fluctuating between a low of 155 pounds when he was in his thirties to as high as 220. He spent a decade tracking calories on WeightWatchers, but the pounds he dropped always crept back onto his 5-foot-5-inch frame. A little over a year ago, the 58-year-old Manhattan resident went on a new weight loss drug called Wegovy. He’s lost 30 pounds, and has started eating healthier food and exercising—the habits behind many commercial diet...
Zepbound, a drug that rivals Ozempic, may one day be a treatment for sleep apnea, according to results from a new study.
Old laws and the high cost of these drugs have been obstacles for wider coverage.
A growing number of insurance carriers say they won't cover the cost of weight loss medications because it is too high. The change is forcing some patients to take desperate measures. NBC News' Erin McLaughlin reports.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Wednesday launched an investigation into the “outrageously high prices” of Novo Nordisk’s respective diabetes and weight loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. On Wednesday, Sanders penned a letter to Novo Nordisk’s chief executive officer, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, notifying him of
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The American Heart Assn. calls them "game changers." Oprah Winfrey says they're "a gift." Science magazine anointed them the "2023 Breakthrough of the Year." Americans are most familiar with their brand names: Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound. They are the medications that have revolutionized weight loss and raised the possibility of reversing the country's obesity crisis. Obesity — like so many diseases — disproportionately affects people in racial and ethnic groups that have been...
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