Weight loss drugs ‘beneficial in many different ways,’ West Virginia Gov. Justice says

Yahoo ^ | 11/27/24 | Lori Kersey

[DallasBiff]

Ruh roh, a RINO, is parroting big pharma.

Hey Jim, I lost 55 pounds by giving up high fructose corn syrup soft drinks.

[Jim W N]

Since when did politicians become medical doctors? Since 2008 and Obama? That’s about right.

GET GOV’T OUT OF HEATHCARE!!!!

[Carriage Hill]

Body count, so far:

10 dead, 100+ hospitalized.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/novo-nordisk-says-it-is-aware-10-deaths-compounded-weight-loss-drug-copies-2024-11-06/

[VanShuyten]

I keep flashing back to that one “Simpsons” episode in the future when a blind Flanders says, after having had Lasic eye surgery, “No one knew after 20 years, we’d all be blind.”

[Steve_Seattle]

Wegovy has one of the most inane commercials currently running. It shows a bunch of still-chubby people walking away from their jobs or tasks to join a crowd of other Wegovy users marching down the middle of the street.

[yelostar]

Subsidizing Big Pharma with tax dollars and getting “medicines” with serious side effects into more American bodies.

Win - Win!

[DYngbld]

Do they cure fork to mouth disease? That is my problem.

[Reily]

Or so says our morbidly obese governor now senator!

[discostu]

It’s actually a good drug with lots of benefits. Unfortunately it became popular as a largely optional care weight loss drug. Kinda like Viagra which was a legit drug for various heart conditions... and also helped boners. Doesn’t mean the drug is bad, it just means we’re a society that loves quick fixes and unintended uses.

[Dead Corpse]

Weird how they outlawed entire classes of performance enhancing drugs only to start pushing weight loss drugs...

[mewzilla]

I’m sure the makers of Depends, car detailers, reupholsterers, et al think so...

[HYPOCRACY]

You ain’t kidding. People that huge don’t stick around long past his age now.

[dynachrome]

Let’s where everyone is 5 years from now.

[newfreep]

[Reily]

That’s why some of us here (WV) were surprised he ran for the Senate. His ego won out over considerations of health. Let’s see if he can do two terms.

[Valpal1]

" reports of 10 deaths and 100 hospitalisations of people who had taken compounded copies of its weight-loss and diabetes drugs."

Do you know the difference between compounded copies and the real deal?

[TornadoAlley3]

Send some to Pritzker and Christie

[Carriage Hill]

Yes, I do.

[P-Marlowe]

There has never been a weight loss drug that doesn’t do more harm than good.

And in the end there are no weight loss drugs that work.

[Veto!]

A woman in my neighborhood lost half her body weight and looks terrific now. She’s mot a wealthy woman so drug probably subsidized in some way. What do those pills cost?