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- Medical staff are promoting semaglutide injections for weight loss on social media.
- Novo Nordisk, which makes the drug under the names Ozempic and Wegovy, said it has no role in posts.
- Patients are clamoring for information on medical weight loss, doctors told Insider.
The video is like many on TikTok, with an on-trend dance to a catchy beat. Except this one is filmed in a medical office.
It opens with a doctor jiving to the beat of Soulja Boy's "Pretty Boy Swag." Then it cuts to a woman, dancing and grinning alongside the caption: "Down 85 lbs & still going." The video, which has nearly 60,000 likes, is among a proliferation of TikTok posts tagged with the names of semaglutide weight-loss drugs, including Wegovy and Ozempic.