An Ozempic pen. Americans are increasingly calling poison control centers over semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. Most of these calls appear to ...

America's Poison Centers released the data with ... "Someone who is unable to get Wegovy can resort to using Ozempic instead, because it is the same medication, but they may start to [adjust ...

Semaglutide, available as Ozempic and Wegovy, has been hailed as a monumental breakthrough ... This makes it 'easy' to ...

More Tennessee companies are covering weight-loss injections in health care benefit plans. This could impact the state's high ...

While GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy hold promise for both weight loss and diabetes management, their potential for accidental misuse requires caution.

Grappling with obesity and the metabolic diseases cascading from it, they are now among the plurality of Americans who have ...

Many of the calls stem from individuals mistakenly taking the wrong dose of the compounded version of semaglutide.

Unlike Ozempic or Wegovy, which come in prefilled pens ... As of June 30, there have been 159 calls to U.S. poison control centers involving compounded GLP-1s, according to America’s Poison ...

As with Ozempic, Wegovy’s dosage starts at 0.25 mg once ... Another option is to call America’s Poison Centers at 800-222-1222 or use its online tool. If you have severe symptoms, immediately ...

Calls to poison control centers about overdoses related to GLP-1 drugs, which includes the blockbuster diabetes and obesity drugs semaglutide (Wegovy and Ozempic) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro and ...

The Utah Poison Control Center has seen an uptick in calls related to overdoses of weight loss and diabetes medication.