{"id":406499,"date":"2026-01-14T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/406499\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:06:07","slug":"popular-weight-loss-drugs-shouldnt-carry-suicide-warnings-fda-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/406499\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular weight-loss drugs shouldn&#8217;t carry suicide warnings, FDA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Federal regulators on Tuesday told drugmakers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly to remove label warnings about <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/drugs\/drug-safety-and-availability\/fda-requests-removal-suicidal-behavior-and-ideation-warning-glucagon-peptide-1-receptor-agonist-glp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">potential suicidal thoughts<\/a> and behaviors from their blockbuster weight-loss medications. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said a comprehensive review \u201cfound no increased\u201d risk related to suicide among users of the GLP-1 drugs for obesity, including Novo Nordisk&#8217;s Wegovy and Saxenda and Eli Lilly&#8217;s Zepbound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/But the agency also said officials cannot definitively rule out that \u201ca small risk may exist\u201d and that they\u2019ll continue to look into reports regarding more than a dozen drugs, including Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro. Patients taking the drugs should report any concerns to health care providers, the FDA said.\" rel=\"nofollow\">preliminary review<\/a> in January 2024 showed no link between the drugs and suicidal thought or actions, the FDA said. At that time, however, officials said they could not rule out that \u201ca small risk may exist.\u201d The new analysis puts those concerns to rest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Labeling for other drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists approved to treat diabetes carried no such warnings, the agency noted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cToday&#8217;s FDA action will ensure consistent messaging across the labeling for all FDA-approved GLP-1 RA medications,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal regulators on Tuesday told drugmakers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly to remove label warnings about potential suicidal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[195721,966,28,3132,97,163164,243,5642,11603],"class_list":{"0":"post-406499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-195721","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-government-regulations","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-industry-regulation","14":"tag-medication","15":"tag-suicide","16":"tag-weight-management"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}