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Women of childbearing age should take heed of several GLP-1 warnings. Anecdotes abound about “Ozempic babies”—when women wound up with unplanned pregnancies while taking both birth-control and the ...

A UK watchdog is urging women on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro to use effective forms of birth control after receiving more than 40 pregnancy-related reports linked to the ...

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Anecdotes abound about “Ozempic babies”—when women wound up with unplanned pregnancies while taking both birth-control and the popular GLP-1 drugs for diabetes or weight loss. But today marks the ...