We’ve all heard of Ozempic by now. It’s only licensed for use as a diabetes treatment in the UK and US, but it's widely used ‘off label’ to help people lose weight. So much so, in fact, that its name ...

In December 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy, the first FDA-approved daily oral GLP-1 medication for ...

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With just a few months to go before Eli Lilly expects to launch its own oral GLP-1 obesity drug, Novo Nordisk is making the ...

Novo Nordisk on Saturday said its diabetes pill Rybelsus showed cardiovascular benefits in a late-stage trial, paving the way for it to become a new treatment option for people living with diabetes ...

The once-a-day semaglutide pill is approved for reducing the risk of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes, the company said in a ...

Semaglutide is a prescription medication. Injectable forms of the drug are available under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy. The pill form of semaglutide is available as the brand-name drug Rybelsus ...

Popular weight-loss and type 2 diabetes drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic are typically taken as self-administered injections—a bearable albeit unpleasant jab to the abdomen or thigh. But drug ...

Ozempic has become so embedded in global culture that “Ozempic face” was shortlisted for a prominent dictionary’s word of the year in 2025. Ozempic isn’t the only drug that mimics the natural GLP-1 ...

April 2 (Reuters) - (To receive the full newsletter in your inbox for free sign up here) Novo Nordisk’s (NOVOb.CO), opens new tab diabetes medicine Rybelsus, an oral form of the GLP-1 drug semaglutide ...

GLP-1 medications have been a life-changing tool to help people manage their blood sugar and lose weight. But the most popular forms of these medications have a big drawback: you have to inject ...

Orforglipron is an oral medication currently being developed for obesity and type 2 diabetes. Similar to glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist injections, the pill may help reduce appetite, ...