The Atlantic considers how new obesity pills like Ozempic could upend American society.
How the new obesity pills could upend American society About a decade ago, Susan Yanovski, an obesity researcher at the National Institutes of Health, held a symposium to discuss a question that bedeviled her field: Why was it so hard to develop weight-loss drugs that actually worked and didn’t harm …
New weight-loss drugs are getting all the hype, but bariatric surgery is still the “gold standard” for treating obesity. The Ozempic craze shows no signs of slowing. Demand for the drug, popularly used for weight loss, is so monumental that it is already changing the diet industry and spurring a …
The idea that we exercise to get thin may be more dangerous than ever. In the summer of 2015, one of my best friends died at work. Shannon was 38, childless, single and thriving, and working as an executive at a global public-relations firm, where she handled a major client. She was set to take a …
Weight-loss drugs show great promise—but they also pose challenges that pharmaceutical innovation alone can’t overcome. Thanks to extraordinary demand for the drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, which cause weight loss, pharmaceutical companies are racing to bring even more potent anti-obesity treatments to …
Some patients taking weight-loss and diabetes drugs end up with sulfur-smelling “eructations.” On the November morning when the sulfur burps began, Derron Borders was welcoming prospective students at the graduate school where he works in New York. Every few minutes, no matter how hard he tried to …
A “huge explosion” in obesity drugs is on the horizon. All of a sudden, Ozempic is everywhere. The weight-loss drug that it contains, semaglutide, is a potent treatment for obesity, and Hollywood and TikTok celebrities have turned it into a sensation. In just a few months, the medication has been …
