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Last update: Mar 7, 2024
-- New weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound
may make oral birth control pills less effective at certain points --
SAN DIEGO, March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Use of GLP-1 receptor agonists, or GLP-1s, is skyrocketing in the United States, with more than nine million prescriptions for Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and similar diabetes and obesity drugs written during the last three months of 2022 alone.1 Zepbound weekly prescriptions hit 25,000 in December 2023, just one month after it was approved to treat obesity.2 These drugs may make oral birth control pills less effective at certain points in the dosing schedule, making an unintended pregnancy more likely.
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