Tag: Ozempic
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Ozempic, Wegovy popularity leads to rise of fake weight loss drugs
Ozempic, Wegovy popularity leads to rise of fake weight loss drugs – CBS News Watch CBS News The demand for weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy has led to a flood of fake drugs hitting the market. However, these counterfeit medicines can be harmful to people’s health. Tom Hanson has more. Be the first…
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The Novo Nordisk scientist behind Ozempic, Wegovy weight loss research
The Novo Nordisk scientist behind Ozempic, Wegovy weight loss research – CBS News Watch CBS News Drugs Ozempic and Wegovy have slimmed down Hollywood stars — and millions of non-celebrities worldwide — while adding great heft to the economy of Novo Nordisk’s home country, Denmark. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking…
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How a love story launched the company behind Ozempic, Wegovy | 60 Minutes
Novo Nordisk, the company behind Ozempic and Wegovy, is now Europe’s largest company as global demand for its drugs have soared. But the Danish pharmaceutical company’s origins were motivated by more personal reasons, not financial. The company was launched in the early 1920s by Nobel laureate August Krogh and his wife Marie, a doctor living…
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Scientist behind Ozempic started her career developing laundry detergent | 60 Minutes
Ozempic and Wegovy may not have been developed if not for the insistence of Novo Nordisk’s head of research, Mads Krogsgaard. Leadership at the Danish company in the early 1990s were skeptical about developing drugs to treat obesity. Krogsgaard saw things differently. “I started trying to convince them that it’s not getting on the bike,”…