Last year saw a dramatic rise in employees prescribed these drugs, officials said, driving up costs for Erie County's largest public health insurance consortium by an estimated $7.8 million. That ...

GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro are changing the weight loss game. But there’s a catch—and most people don’t hear about it until it’s too late. Yes, these medications suppress ...

Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) inhibitors have proven effective in preventing cardiovascular events, leading to experts ...

ABC News Medical Correspondent Dr. Darien Sutton take a closer look at the new study by Eli Lilly that their popular diabetes ...

The drugs reportedly under consideration for coverage include Novo Nordisk's Wegovy and Ozempic, and Eli Lilly's Zepbound and ...

State Medicaid programs already are allowed to offer GLP-1 drugs for weight loss, but only 13 state programs currently do so. Meanwhile, Medicare currently covers GLP-1 drugs for people with a ...

Eli Lilly drug Mounjaro resulted in a lower risk of heart attacks and strokes in patients with diabetes compared with the ...

Blockbuster weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound have surged in popularity, but high prices have left them out of reach for many obese Americans.

Some obese Americans on Medicare and Medicaid could get access to expensive weight loss drugs under a five-year experiment ...

If you suspect someone has been taking Ozempic, or Mounjaro, or Wegovy, or yet another fat jab, is it impolite to ask them?

Medical professionals observe that GLP-1 medications like Ozempic show promise for treating rheumatoid arthritis alongside ...

Drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists were initially developed to treat Type 2 diabetes but have become a cultural phenomenon.