semaglutide black box warning Weight-loss drug called Wegovy receives FDA approval Novo Nordisk's obesity-drug business has

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The FDA also required changes to the labels to achieve a more uniform presentation of side effects and risk information for all of the drugs in the GLP-1 category, including adding or changing subsections for Acute Pancreatitis and Severe Gastrointestinal Adverse Reactions and revising the Patient Counseling section and Medication Guide. Some of the labels were also updated with post-marketing reports of hair loss (alopecia) and the neurological symptom of altered sense of touch, or dysethesia

For patients planning pregnancy, semaglutide should be discontinued at least 2 months before a planned pregnancy due to the long half-life, while tirzepatide may persist for approximately 1 month

Professional cold storage equipment designed for pharmaceutical applications maintains temperature stability within narrow ranges, typically plus or minus one degree Celsius, eliminating the temperature cycling that occurs with consumer-grade refrigeration systems using simple on-off thermostatic controls

Ozempic is part of a class of drugs called GLP-1s, which I wont get too deep into, as many people are burned out from even hearing about GLP-1s from 2023 (me included)

In the systematic review of clinical trials mentioned above, tirzepatide conferred the greatest risk of vomiting, RR 13.23 (95% CI 4.8536.09), whereas the risks for semaglutide (RR 4.21 [95% CI 3.584.95]) and orforglipron (RR 4.43 [95% CI 1.4513.56]) were similar (15)