Joie Armstrong asked her doctor about taking a GLP-1 medication to help her lose weight six times before she got a prescription, and then was denied coverage by her insurance company. Adrian, a ...

Why one man — and others in his gray market community — is making tirzepatide at home. Insurance wouldn't cover his weight loss medication. So he started making his own.

Easier Access For Some. ... “Because semaglutide is the most mechanistically similar drug to tirzepatide, I envision for a while more Americans will utilize compounded semaglutide,” Rhodes said.

Semaglutide and tirzepatide prescriptions for obesity are influenced by race, gender, social vulnerability, and urbanicity, with disparities in access and utilization. Despite increased ...

Weight-Loss Drug Shortages: Access Now Limited to Diabetes Medication Mounjaro (tirzepatide) Written by Dan Gray on December 9, 2022 — Fact checked by Dana K. Cassell ...

INDIANAPOLIS – The way people are accessing GLP-1 medications Semaglutide and Tirzepatide is going to become very limited after the drugs were taken off the FDA’s shortage list.

If tirzepatide remains off the FDA's drug shortage list, compounding pharmacies must cease the production of these medications on any significant scale, according to gastroenterologist and obesity ...

Some patients fear that they’ll lose access to tirzepatide because the US Food and Drug Administration determined that a shortage of the brand-name drug has ended – which means compounding of ...

In a statement posted to the newsroom of Hims & Hers (HIMS), Craig Primack stated in part: “In my experience of treating thousands of people ...

The supply of GLP-1 drugs for weight loss and diabetes treatment is expected to tighten this week with a federal deadline to halt the sale and production of off-brand products that many patients ...

The supply of GLP-1 drugs for weight loss and diabetes treatment is expected to tighten this week with a federal deadline to halt the sale and production of off-brand products that many patients ...