GLP-1 medications are renowned for their ability to treat type 2 diabetes and aid weight loss. Now, there's a new benefit to ...

Regulators have approved the drug as a treatment for weight loss, Type 2 diabetes and lowering the risk of heart attacks and ...

“The impact on not just kidney disease but also cardiovascular disease and on all-cause death.” Ozempic and other semaglutide ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic as the first GLP-1 treatment option for people with type 2 ...

Expanded Ozempic approval in the U.S. could transform how doctors treat patients with chronic kidney disease, which involves ...

Ozempic, or semaglutide, can now be used to reduce the risk of worsening kidney disease or kidney failure in adults with type ...

Nephrologists jumped on the GLP-1 bandwagon well before Novo Nordisk won FDA approval for Ozempic in chronic kidney disease ...

Chronic kidney disease affects about 37 million adults in the United States and is expected to rise. It is a common ...

The approval adds a new indication for GLP-1 drugs and gives Novo an advantage over Lilly’s rival diabetes drug Mounjaro, ...

Approval was based on results from the Phase IIIb FLOW trial, which demonstrated a 24% relative risk reduction in kidney ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved Ozempic to be used to lessen the risk of kidney disease from getting worse, ...

Chronic kidney disease is a common complication for ... The new indications, approved Tuesday by the FDA, make Ozempic the most broadly indicated drug in its class, with the largest set of ...