April 1, 2024 Food ‘Oatzempic’: TikTok Users Claim New Drink Helps With Weight Loss—Here’s What You Need to Know. This should have been an April Fools’ joke.
February 26, 2024 Epidemiology Measles travel advisories, New Canadian Pharmacare not covering the cost of Ozempic for people with type 2 diabetes, and a possible new treatment pathway for people suffering from Crohn’s disease.
January 14, 2024 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #909, January 14, 2024: How health insurance company wanna-be-doctor bean counter’s medication-coverage decisions interfere with therapeutic management and has had a deleterious effect on (my) patients’ health outcomes.
December 15, 2023 General information U.S. pharmacies that are compounding unregulated vials of semaglutide for sale during the Ozempic shortage has led to Poison centers reporting a 1,500% increase in calls related to accidental overdose.
December 4, 2023 Alcoholism Initial small studies show that the use of Semaglutide (Ozempic) may help reduce alcohol consumption.
November 19, 2023 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #902, November 19, 2023: The Chosen Ones.
October 6, 2023 Bariatric Medicine Ozempic and similar drugs linked to gastrointestinal conditions: B.C. researchers. Already known but needs context about rarity of some of the side effects versus the beneficial health outcomes when assessing overall risk of its use.
June 28, 2023 Alternative Medicine TikTokers tout berberine as ‘nature’s Ozempic.’ There is little to no evidence to support this claim.
June 18, 2023 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #881, June 18, 2023: When Experts Talk Out of Orifices That were Not Designed for Speech.
May 9, 2023 Bariatric Medicine The claim that semaglutide (Ozempic) leads to temporary hair loss is not a side effect of the drug but a normal physiological response when we lose weight.