{"id":156636,"date":"2025-11-24T07:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156636\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T07:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:05:11","slug":"quick-tip-fake-weight-loss-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156636\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Tip: Fake weight loss drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jason Knowles Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/15064248_jasonknowles.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, November 22, 2025 7:32PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Quick Tip: Fake weight loss drugs\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick tip on fake weight-loss products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Here&#8217;s a quick tip on fake weight-loss products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Security experts at &#8220;Checkpoint&#8221; say scammers are tricking people by using deepfake videos, cloned social media profiles, and fake telehealth websites to sell counterfeit products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Imposters may encourage victims to buy medications that are not FDA-approved and may contain harmful or untested substances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Health professionals recommend getting weight-loss prescriptions only through a licensed healthcare provider and filling them at legitimate pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Watch for red flags such as misspellings, broken or open seals, or packaging that does not display the &#8220;Novo Nordisk&#8221; label. That is the only FDA-approved manufacturer of  Semaglutide-based weight-loss medications, like the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, November 22, 2025 7:32PM Here&#8217;s a quick tip on fake weight-loss products. CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Here&#8217;s a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88289,103,61,60,371],"class_list":{"0":"post-156636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-88289","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}