merck glp-1 pays $112M upfront for Hansoh's preclinical Understanding GLP-1 medications

District Court in New York unsealed a March 2025 complaint filed by Gilead Sciences against a pharmacy in Queens, New York alleged to have sold counterfeit Biktarvy, an HIV treatment, and refused to disclose its source

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Often, when patients start a GLP-1 medication, they are surprised that certain foods can cause significant side effects, says Meghan Garcia-Webb, MD, a board-certified internal, lifestyle, and obesity medicine physician in private practice in Wellesley, Massachusetts

Designed to act as a natural Ozempic alternative, it helps users manage appetite, reduce cravings, and support sustainable weight management

If your doctor was not aware of these risks, that itself becomes part of the larger narrative about inadequate manufacturer warnings

And our society is allowing people with obesity to take a product that might be inferior or ineffective, because theres such a bias against obesity that people are like: They did it to themselves If they die, they die. Hims did not respond to repeated requests for comment