Leigh-Anne Lagden was given a free weight loss injection in exchange for social media promotion but claims they told her to take five times as much as she should have and she ended up hospitalized.

Welcome to the healthier, happier world of 2030. Heart attacks and strokes are down 20%. A drop in food consumption has left more money in people’s wallets. Lighter passengers are saving airlines 100 million litres of fuel each year. And billions of people are enjoying a better quality of life, with improvements to their mental and physical health.

These drugs are collectively known as GLP-1 agonists because they mimic the body’s natural hormone GLP-1, which regulates appetite and digestion. The medications control blood sugar and help people eat less,

While plenty of people rave about the weight loss results you can get from drugs like Ozempic, there’s also been a ton of chatter over the fact that these meds are really expensive. These drugs have also been in and out of shortage, making it tough to get your hands on Ozempic and similar medications—if you can afford it.

Losing more than 8% of weight in less than a month. This is the promise of a pill under experimentation in the laboratories of the American company Viking Therapeutics, which has achieved a

(Reuters) -Viking Therapeutics shares climbed 9% on Monday after the drug developer's oral obesity treatment helped reduce body weight with mild side effects in a small trial, data that analysts said compared favorably to some rivals in development.

Viking Therapeutics stock is volatile Monday after the pharma company released positive data for its weight-loss drug. Here's what you need to know.