From The Independent:
There are an estimated 31 million Americans currently on GLP-1 medications, spurred on by the multitude of ads plastered across social media and TV — not to mention celebrity and influencer testimonials — promising them a fresh start.
Those ads and personal tales, many of which feature celebrities and reality stars, come with mandated warnings of some of the potentially harmful side effects of the active ingredient semaglutide that the medications can cause “in rare cases.” But for the more than 4,000 Americans who have filed lawsuits against the manufacturers of GLP-1 drugs — including giant Novo Nordisk, which produces Ozempic and Wegovy— they claim there was no such warning of the life-altering conditions they now have to live with when they started taking the medications.