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Lawsuits claiming severe injury from weight loss drugs swell

The injectable drug Ozempic is shown Saturday, July 1, 2023, in Houston. AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File

The injectable drug Ozempic is shown Saturday, July 1, 2023, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

A series of hefty lawsuits are barreling ahead throughout the United States from a wide array of people who claim Novo Nordisk and Eli Lily, makers of diabetes and weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and others, failed to warn them about potentially dangerous side effects and risks including stomach paralysis and damage to the gallbladder so severe it would require removal in some instances.

So numerous are these and similar allegations coming in from users of the injectable drugs known as “GLP-1 agonists” in states like Arizona, Illinois, North Carolina, Texas and elsewhere, that a multidistrict litigation proceeding before a federal judge in the Pennsylvania only last week opted to centralize the cases as they proceed.

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