GLP-1 stands for glucagon-like peptide-1, a satiety hormone the body produces when we eat to help stimulate digestion and ...

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk — best known for its blockbuster weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy — has signed ...

Compounding pharmacies, that produced the weight loss drugs at a fraction of their brand name price, are being forced to stop ...

There are two kinds of medicines made at compounding pharmacies: Sterile compounds. These drugs are injected into your tissue or blood or put into your eyes. They need to be made in a sterile ...

The FDA has been cut off from producing compounded weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic, Mounjaro or Wegovy, the most effective ...

Are you weening yourself off a compounded version of the drug? Considering switching insurers in order to keep your ...

In some cases, counterfeit drugs have landed people in the hospital, including three people in the United States whose blood ...

Ever since the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk realized that GLP-1 drugs were useful for more than diabetes, doctors and ...

US telehealth group explores selling ‘compounded medications’ in new markets after buying London-based rival Zava ...

Compounding pharmacies also help fill drug shortages, like when compounders stepped up during the pandemic to supply hospitals with critical drugs such as fentanyl. More recently, the pharmacies ...

As the Food and Drug Administration clamps down on off-brand weight loss medications, Seattle-area residents are stocking up ...