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A box of the GLP-1 medication Ozempic.
U.S.
Friday, 7/3, 01:38 AM

A Study on Weight-Loss Drugs and Bias: What It Really Shows

  • A new working paper reports that women who lost weight on GLP-1 medications became more likely to find a job or a partner within a year and a half.
  • The finding is preliminary and unreviewed — and, its author stresses, it is less a story about the drugs than an uncomfortable measure of how much appearance still shapes the way women are treated.

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