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Many patients with diabetes stop taking injectable medications because they are uncomfortable, forget their doses, or find it inconvenient
Steve Boyd, a PBM reform advocate, traditional PBMs can exacerbate GLP-1 costs
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The double-blind clinical trial of 1961 adults with overweight or obesity without diabetes found that the average weight loss after 68 weeks was about 15 percent of body weight for those given semaglutide versus only about 2.5 percent for those taking the placebo