Diabetes drug Ozempic may result in unexpected pregnancies for women on birth control pills


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SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Diabetes drug Ozempic is making waves again, this time for a side effect of causing unexpected pregnancies – even among women who are on birth control pills.

Ozempic – a brand name for semaglutide – is a prescription-only, once-weekly injectable medication from Denmark’s Novo Nordisk that has been around since the end of 2017 for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes. It made headlines several years ago for helping people to lose weight.

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