One of the hottest growth areas in the healthcare landscape these days is the obesity drug market because of a class of drugs ...

Lots of people are on cheaper compounded weight-loss drugs that mimic brands like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound. They're ...

A woman who lost 64 pounds on a compounded form of the weight loss drug semaglutide, marketed as Wegovy and Ozempic, started ...

The benefits of taking GLP-1 agonists seem to outweigh the risks, at least when taken for approved uses, according to an ...

The study included nearly 2 million patients, making it the largest ever conducted on this group of glucagon-like peptide-1 ...

Russell Wooten of Hendersonville, North Carolina, has spent much of his life struggling with obesity, often carrying 260 pounds on his 6-foot-3 frame. He repeatedly starved himself to lose weight, ...

A study by the Department of Veterans Affairs says that drugs like Ozempic can do plenty more than just help with weight loss ...

Viking Therapeutics Inc.’s stock jumped 3% Tuesday, after a bullish note from Oppenheimer highlighted the company’s promising ...

Viking (VKTX) is in the midst of a phase 2a dosing trial of its oral obesity drug VK2735, with a data readout expected in the second half of the year. The company is expected to launch a phase 3 trial ...

About 140,400 obese patients in Massachusetts were prescribed medications like Wegovy and Zepbound in 2024, a 255 percent ...

Miracle drug innovations — such as those that sparked the meteoric rise of Wegovy and Zepbound — could come every couple of ...