Never switch without professional guidance
This is important for people with Type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease
Contraindications include: Personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma, multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, history of pancreatitis, pregnancy, and certain other conditions
The researchers also studied the financial impacts if a government health care program, such as Medicare, were to expand its coverage of weight loss drugs for medical treatments beyond diabetes or sleep apnea
In the meantime, companies like Hims & Hers must make a hard pivot from their current practices by assisting their customers with the transition away from compounded semaglutide to branded GLP-1 products or other agents they market for weight loss such as bupropion, metformin, topiramate, vitamin B12, and naltrexone