Aimee Donnellan: Ozempic – What We Know

Aimee Donnellan tells the inside story of the race to develop Ozempic – the world’s first truly effective and safe obesity drug – and its potentially revolutionary effects on public health, and our deeper culture and values. She reveals how the success of Ozempic and subsequent weight loss injections are disrupting industries – from healthcare to fast food to fashion.

Aimee forecasts the future of weight loss medications and examines what their explosive popularity tells us about our ideals of beauty, the lengths to which people will go in order to become thin, the current state of healthcare and the inner workings of the pharmaceutical industry. But are these drugs too good to be true?

Book: Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity, 4th Estate