People who stayed on a 7.2 milligram weekly dose of semaglutide lost around 20% of their body weight over 72 weeks.

Brand-name semaglutide (Wegovy and Ozempic) comes in a prefilled injection pen. This pen is single-use and contains the dose of semaglutide that’s appropriate for you at the time. Compounded ...

Two U.S. senators wrote a letter to the Food and Drug Administration on Friday expressing concerns about an upcoming Super ...

Many Americans spend nearly $1,000 per month on semaglutide drugs, such as Ozempic, according to the Yale School of Medicine. The current list price for Ozempic is $968.52 per pen without insurance.

Alexandra Sowa's new book The Ozempic Revolution is intended to be the "first comprehensive user guide" to GLP-1 drugs like ...

A Phase 3 clinical trial found that injections of the semaglutide medication once weekly reduced the risk of kidney disease ...

A new study shows that semaglutide can improve glucose levels for people with type 1 diabetes who use automated pumps, without increasing hypoglycemia. In this double-blinded randomized trial ...

Semaglutide is a GLP-1 receptor agonist that selectively binds to and activates the GLP-1 receptor mimicking its activity. GLP-1 is an incretin hormone and enterogastrone that stimulates insulin ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Once opened, compounded semaglutide typically lasts 28 days in the fridge. Compounded semaglutide, which contains the same active ...