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A quick explanation about what Ozempic is would be helpful in this case. Not every country uses the same name for their drugs and the brand names are often very different

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That's an interesting remark, considering this is most famous drug on the face of the Earth, and only has one brand name worldwide (in a different dosage it's called Wegovy, and when it's released as a pill it will be called Rybelsus). Its generic name is Semaglutide.

Wouldn’t the most famous drug be: aspirin, heroin, cocaine, paracetamol, or maybe viagra?

I don’t know from your comment what it is, and it was unhelpful. Not really in the HN spirit. For future readers, it seems to be an anti-diabetic drug or artificial hormone originating in the 70s. More educated comments than mine are very welcome.

Paracetemol proves the original complaint. In the US, we know it as acetaminophen.

This is the first time I'm hearing about it. It seems here it's only prescribed to type 2 diabetes partients and doctors are strictly prohibited from prescribing it for weight loss.

Yes that might be what you read online but in reality there are 5 people at my work out of a team of ~35 on the medication purely for weight loss. Only one of these people was majorly obese, and the other 4 were nominally overweight (though probably technically obese).

Roughly 15 million Americans are on Ozempic, and about half of them do not use it at all for Diabetes treatment.

I had never heard of this drug before today.

It's the biggest thing in the world, in small niche groups.

> this is most famous drug on the face of the Earth

I swear in Europe if you stop 10 people on the street, 9 will ask you what the hell you are talking about

lol what? Have you heard of Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Paracetamol? I bet you that by far more people know those three than "Ozempic".

It literally says this in the article.

It says that a lot of people are on Ozempic. And that it changes the skin somehow. And that these people get plastic surgery.

If you search for "diabetes" in the article, then yeah, you'll find it about half way down, but by then I already stopped reading because I had no idea what the whole article was about.

So yeah, it might technically be in the article, but it wouldn't have hurt to put it in the post title now, would it?

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