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Lawsuit alleges blockbuster weight-loss drugs cause ‘stomach paralysis’

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly accused of failing to warn patients of gastroparesis risk

Drugmakers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are facing a possible wave of personal injury lawsuits over claims they failed to warn patients their blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs can cause stomach paralysis and severe vomiting.

Morgan & Morgan, a personal injury law firm, on Wednesday said it had filed a case on behalf of a 44-year-old woman from Louisiana who suffered such severe vomiting after taking the drugs Ozempic and Mounjaro that she was hospitalised and lost teeth.

The firm said it has signed up 400 clients who claim that after taking these drugs they contracted gastroparesis — a disorder that slows or stops movements of food from the stomach to the small intestine and causes nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.

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