The FDA has added a new warning to drugs including Ozempic and Wegovy, cautioning that patients taking the drugs may be at a higher risk of inhaling gastric contents into their lungs while under

The FDA spent more than 15 years crafting the guidelines, which are designed to do away with industry practices that downplay or distract viewers from drug risks.

Clear descriptions of potential risks and side effects will be required under rules that go into effect Nov. 20, even as the Trump administration readies an offensive against big pharma.

Those ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking, or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different look. New rules require drugmakers to be clearer and more direct when explaining their medications’ risks and side effects.

The new rules become binding on November 20, but many drug companies have already been acting within these requirements. Companies have always been required by the FDA to give a b

The agency’s new guidelines are created to eliminate pharmaceutical company practices that minimize or distract consumers from knowing risk information about drugs.

The new rules instruct drugmakers to use simple, consumer-friendly language when describing their drugs, without medical jargon.