{"id":1968864,"date":"2023-07-10T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ozempic-being-investigated-for-link-to-suicidal-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T17:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T21:11:14","slug":"ozempic-being-investigated-for-link-to-suicidal-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ozempic-being-investigated-for-link-to-suicidal-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozempic under scrutiny for potential connection to suicidal ideation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fozempic-being-investigated-for-link-to-suicidal-thoughts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1968864&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>European Drug Safety Regulators Investigate Link Between Ozempic and Suicidal Thoughts<\/h2>\n<p>The European Medicines Agency&#8217;s drug safety panel is currently investigating whether popular diabetes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doctors-say-these-are-the-four-most-effective-weight-loss-drugs\/\" title=\"Doctors Say These Are the Four Most Effective Weight-loss Drugs\">weight loss medications<\/a>, including Ozempic, may be associated with an increase in suicidal thoughts among patients. This investigation comes after reports of two patients experiencing suicidal and self-harm thoughts while taking Ozempic, as well as one patient on a similar product called Saxenda, both of which are produced by Novo Nordisk, a Danish pharmaceutical company.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns Surrounding GLP-1 Drugs<\/h3>\n<p>Ozempic, approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating insulin-dependent Type II diabetes, is also used off-label as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aaps-obesity-treatments-prioritize-big-pharma-over-childrens-health-and-wellness\/\" title=\"AAP\u2019s Obesity Treatments Prioritize Big Pharma Over Children\u2019s Health And Wellness\">weight loss medication<\/a>. It contains the chemical semaglutide, which mimics the GLP-1 hormone responsible for promoting insulin development. The drug safety panel is now considering expanding the inquiry to include all GLP-1 drugs, such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Saxenda, among others.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenges Faced by Patients<\/h3>\n<p>Patients prescribed Ozempic or Wegovy for diabetes or weight loss often struggle with consistency in taking their medication. This is partly because GLP-1 drugs function as appetite suppressants, leading to successful health effects but also causing a loss of pleasure sensation in eating. Jens Juul Hols, a scientist involved in the development of GLP-1 drugs, described the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-focused-hedge-funds-lower-exposure-as-risks-mount\/\" title=\"China-focused hedge funds lower exposure as risks mount\">long-term experience<\/a> as &#8220;miserably boring&#8221; in an interview with Wired.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novo Nordisk&#8217;s Commitment to Patient Safety<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novo Nordisk, the manufacturer of these medications, emphasizes that patient safety is their top priority. They take all reports of adverse effects seriously and are closely monitoring the situation. In fact, GLP-1 drugs accounted for 57% of Novo Nordisk&#8217;s sales in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>While thoughts of self-harm are not listed as a side effect of Ozempic, they are mentioned for Wegovy due to the results of a clinical trial involving other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/overweight-cumin-spice-works-better-than-obesity-drugs\/\" title=\"Overweight? Cumin Spice Works Better Than Obesity Drugs\">weight loss drugs<\/a>. The FDA, as a policy, does not comment on investigations conducted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ozempic-being-investigated-for-link-to-suicidal-thoughts\/\" title=\"Ozempic under scrutiny for potential connection to suicidal ideation.\">foreign drug regulatory bodies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and Ozempic, popular diabetes and weight loss medications, are under investigation by European drug safety regulators. The European Medicines Agency is examining cases of suicidal thoughts and self-harm in patients taking these drugs. Two patients on Ozempic and one patient on Saxenda, a similar product, are being studied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1968865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}