{"id":256820,"date":"2026-01-29T01:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/256820\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T01:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:35:07","slug":"lawsuits-question-safety-of-popular-weight-loss-drugs-northwest-national-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/256820\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuits question safety of popular weight-loss drugs | Northwest &#038; National News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">NATIONWIDE \u2014 More than 4,000 people have joined lawsuits against the makers of GLP1 weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Waygobee, according to USA Today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">These plaintiffs claim the medications have caused health issues such as intestinal blockages and blindness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The drug companies insist the medications are safe, stating that any risks are listed in the FDA-approved labels.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This legal action comes as more Americans use these drugs, initially designed for diabetes, for weight loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NATIONWIDE \u2014 More than 4,000 people have joined lawsuits against the makers of GLP1 weight-loss drugs like Ozempic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6548,1757,134,96382,256,84433,524,3193,111,139,69,53322,14374,3194,52920,63116,96381,96380,28083],"class_list":["post-256820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-clinical-medicine","tag-drugs","tag-health","tag-khq","tag-local-news","tag-medical-treatments","tag-medication","tag-medicine","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pharmaceutical-sciences","tag-pharmacology","tag-pharmacy","tag-spokane","tag-spokane-county","tag-spokane-news","tag-spokane-valley","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}