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Can You Have a Fun Vacation on Ozempic?
The drug can make food no fun. What happens if you skip a dose?
Do Overdoses Look Different Now?
The symptoms are the same, but the entire context has changed over the past few decades.
Beware the Ozempic Burp
Some patients taking weight-loss and diabetes drugs end up with sulfur-smelling “eructations.”
A Vaccine for Birth Control?
In its ideal form, a contraceptive vaccine could prevent pregnancy without the messy side effects of some hormonal birth control.
No One in Movies Knows How to Swallow a Pill
There are two kinds of pill takers in this world. Which kind are you?
Will COVID’s Spring Lull Last?
Things look calm right now. They may even stay that way—but we won’t know for sure for a good long while.
A Teen Gender-Care Debate Is Spreading Across Europe
Doubts have now come to the Netherlands, where the most-contested interventions for children and adolescents were developed.
Long-Haulers Are Trying to Define Themselves
Disability can be a scary word for many people with long COVID.
We’ve Had a Cheaper, More Potent Ozempic Alternative for Decades
New weight-loss drugs are getting all the hype, but bariatric surgery is still the “gold standard” for treating obesity.