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August 20, 2026 ByMaureen Salamon, Executive Editor, Harvard Women’s Health Watch

1s are resoundingly popular. According to ING Bank, uptake of the weight-loss drugs is around 12% in the US and 2% in Europe

Arizona Pastor Mark Driscoll recently discussed a controversial issue, one that is frequently talked about today: weight. Specifically, he stated whether or not, in his view, someone who is obese should be disqualified from being a pastor and leading a church. 

Ga. (WTVM) – Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside is the only hospital in the Chattahoochee Valley area to be named a Blue Distinction Center by Blue Cross Blue Shield for its metabolic bariatric surgery program

Aug 20 (Reuters) – Danish biosolutions maker Novonesis expects results in the second half of 2027 from research with Novo Nordisk into whether microbiome supplements could provide additional benefits alongside GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, its chief executive told Reuters

Aug 20 (Reuters) – Celon Pharma’s experimental semaglutide product Reduzek, a generic alternative ‌to Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and ‌Ozempic, matched the blockbuster weight-loss drugs in an ​early-stage bioequivalence study, the Polish drugmaker said on Thursday

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency confirmed on 10 August that it had authorised orforglipron, sold under the brand name Foundayo, making Britain the first country in Europe to licence an oral GLP-1 receptor agonist for both weight management and type 2 diabetes. Julian Beach, the MHRA’s executive director of healthcare quality and access,…

Novo Nordisk has begun a late-stage clinical trial to evaluate whether lower doses of its oral pill, Wegovy, can still deliver weight reduction, reported Reuters

For decades, obesity medications produced only modest weight loss. But in recent years, Ozempic and related GLP-1 therapies have transformed the field, enabling sustained weight loss of 10 to 15% or more. Despite their success, however, scientists have not fully understood how these drugs work in the brain

Actor Ethan Suplee has had one of the more dramatic body transformations. Once known as the portly actor who starred as the 500+ pound linebacker Louis Laster in Disney’s hit film Remember the Titans, Suplee has shed most of the weight he had during the film. In total, he has lost over 300 pounds