{"id":261116,"date":"2026-01-24T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T06:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:19:09","slug":"ozempic-mounjaro-wegovy-irish-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261116\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy: | Irish Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">A new study may alarm some users of GLP-1 medications\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taking an Ozempic injection. Photo: Getty \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fcfb645b-35b9-49c0-9dae-70ad2522bc2e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Taking an Ozempic injection. Photo: Getty <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was the suspicion that Covid lockdowns were ramping up the public\u2019s \u201cvices\u201d that sent journalist Aimee Donnellan down the Ozempic rabbit-hole. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI cover pharmaceuticals for Reuters \u2013 and during the pandemic, I was asked to write about \u2018virus vices\u2019, as they were called,\u201d says Aimee Donnellan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new study may alarm some users of GLP-1 medications Taking an Ozempic injection. Photo: Getty It was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,6992,42829],"class_list":["post-261116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine","tag-sarah-caden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261116","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=261116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}