Individuals prescribed multiple molecules within the same class or both treatments at cohort entry were excluded
Although 503B facilities are required to comply with current good manufacturing practices, compounded drugs are not approved or reviewed by the FDA, meaning that the agency does not assess their safety, efficacy, or quality
Its natural to celebrate when you see your weight going down, but unless youre getting regular body scans, you cant be certain how much of the decrease is from body fat and how much is from other tissuetissue you dont want to lose, like muscle and bone
GLP-1 medications are intriguing from a cancer research perspective because they werent designed for cancer therapy, but they do affect many different targets and pathways associated with cancer development, so were eager to study them in this context, McDonald says
While randomized trials are needed to draw any definitive conclusions, these findings could revolutionize a field that has been riddled with setbacksfrom controversial drug trial failures to the dissolution of leading causal theoriesin just the past few years