Compounding pharmacies are facilities that are able to make customized medications. This could be to alter a drug's dosage or composition for medical purposes. Many patients have benefitted from drug ...

When endocrinologist Dan Bessesen, MD, looked online and saw how easy it would be for him to purchase a weight loss drug from ...

Most compounded versions of popular drugs used for weight loss including Wegovy and Zepbound may soon no longer be available after a U.S. judge declined an initial injunction to allow compounding ...

Dan Bessesen, MD, a health and wellness leader at CU Anschutz, offers key insights on weight loss drugs, particularly compounded GLP-1s that are banned by the FDA but continue to be available.

Compounding pharmacies will have to stop producing copycats of tirzepatide, the active ingredient in the blockbuster weight loss drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound, in a matter of days. That’s because a ...

Since 2022, four GLP-1 drugs, including those indicated for weight loss, have been on FDA’s drug shortage list due to extraordinarily high patient demand. The shortage has, in turn, resulted in ...

Hims & Hers’ Super Bowl ad plugs its compounded weight loss drugs as the “affordable” solution to a “sick system,” but many concerns about safety still swirl around these forms of the medications.

Strive Compounding Pharmacy, one of the nation's most celebrated providers of compounded medications, has filed a federal ...

The health care industry has never encountered anything quite like Ozempic before. First approved to treat Type 2 diabetes, this drug and others like it—known as GLP-1 agonists—hit blockbuster status ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. Food and Drug Administration official testified on Monday that the agency has concerns about drugs made by compounding pharmacies and still sees problems with them six ...

CDSCO introduces guidelines for compounding offences, streamlining compliance for pharma firms and minimizing court appearances for minor contraventions.