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Oprah’s Ozempic brouhaha shows technology advances faster than attitudes

The talkshow host’s embrace of the weight-loss drug threatens to disrupt our persistent association of weight with morality

The Guardian - US

After nearly a decade, Oprah Winfrey is set to depart the board of WeightWatchers

The announcement comes amid falling profits for the company. WeightWatchers has been facing declining stock prices since November as weight loss drugs, known as GLP1s, have soared in popularity.

WEKU

Oprah Winfrey to leave WeightWatchers

Winfrey will not stand for re-election at the company's annual shareholders meeting in May

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Oprah Winfrey To Give Future Earnings From Weight Watchers Stock To African American Museum; Steps Down From Board

The 70-year-old former TV host served on the company's Board of Directors since 2015.

International Business Times UK

Oprah's WeightWatchers Exit Sends Stock Tumbling

Oprah Winfrey's announcement that she is leaving the board of WeightWatchers sent the company's shares tumbling Thursday -- the latest sign of trouble for the brand as it struggles to compete with new weight-loss drugs.

International Business Times

Oprah Winfrey announces she is stepping down from WeightWatchers

Talkshow host says she will donate all her shares ‘to eliminate any perceived conflict around her taking weight-loss medications’

The Guardian - US

Oprah's WeightWatchers Departure Sends Shares Plummeting

Oprah Winfrey's exit from WeightWatchers sparks uncertainty and market turmoil amid heightened competition.

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Weightwatchers Shares Drop As Oprah Exits Board

Oprah Winfrey's exit from WeightWatchers' board impacts stock value and raises concerns among investors.

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Oprah and WeightWatchers are now embracing weight loss drugs. Here's why

WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani says the old advice around losing weight through determination and resilience and willpower was wrong: "The truth is that this is a chronic condition."

WEKU

Weight loss drugs bust our thinness myth

In 1957, Reverend Charlie Shed published a book titled “Pray Your Weight Away.” It became a best-seller

Salon

WeightWatchers CEO on weight loss drugs

“What we do best is help people with weight management. That is the anchor,” Sima Sistani said in a new interview

Salon

WeightWatchers embraces Ozempic

The weight loss company is embracing blockbuster weight-loss drugs, but customers and health experts aren't happy

Salon

WW Stock Soars To High. New Weight-Loss Drug Play Enjoys Oprah Winfrey Effect.

The former WeightWatchers is reinventing itself as a weight-loss play, amid the boom for drugs like Ozempic.

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Fortune

WeightWatchers CEO: The Ozempic era signals 'the end of diet culture.'

Sima Sistani is shifting her company's focus from willpower to so-called miracle drugs.

Fortune

WeightWatchers and Noom push Ozempic-like drugs over willpower

Executives promise ‘the demise of dieting.’ Could we be so lucky?

Chronicle Live

Warning as 'unusual' smell in your breath could be a symptom of diabetes

Here's the smell to be alert to which could be a sign of diabetes as symptoms for the common condition are not always easy to spot

Daily Mirror

Diabetes symptoms include an 'unusual' smell in your breath - the scent to look out for

Diabetes symptoms can be difficult to spot, as none of the main signs make you feel particularly unwell - but there could be a key change to the smell of your breath to watch out for

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Daily Record

Obese Scots man weighing over 18st ditches pizza and kebabs diet to lose 75lbs

Retired NHS physiotherpaist Alistair Murdoch was given a stern warning from his GP after being placed on three different medications for high blood pressure and told he was pre-diabetic in 2021.

The Independent UK

What to know about prescription drugs promising weight loss

WeightWatchers' acquisition of a telehealth company is just the latest commercial push into the market for a new generation of medications that promise significant weight loss

The Independent UK

Celebrity weight loss jab to be available on WeightWatchers

WeightWatchers has acquired telehealth provider Sequence that offers users access to drugs used to treat diabetes and obesity under the brand names including Ozempic, Wegovy and Trulicity

The Independent UK

WeightWatchers gets into prescription weight loss business

WeightWatchers' stock is soaring after the company said it is getting into the prescription drug weight loss business with the acquisition of Sequence

Axios

Weight management goes digital

Weight Watchers is getting into meds, while digital pharmacies like Ro are moving into obesity.

Investors Business Daily

WW Stock Soars As Rising Obesity Drug Market Drives This Telehealth Takeover

Former WeightWatchers is entering clinical weight management. WW stock surged.

Glasgow Live

Clydebank mum who 'sounded like Darth Vader' lost seven stone and dropped five dress sizes in a year

Mum-of-two Lorraine Gallacher says her massive seven stone weight loss has 'opened up a whole new world' for her and allows her to be much more active with her two children.

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