Semaglutide is given once per week on the same day each week as a subcutaneous (under the skin) injection
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It is this rapid expansionwhich has persisted even after GLP-1s were removed from the FDA drug shortage listthat prompted the introduction of the SAFE Drugs Act and has simultaneously driven heightened FDA oversight
Ricardo Correa, MD, EdD, the director of the University of Arizona endocrinology fellowship, told MedPage Today in 2022 that compounders are probably using the same active pharmacological part [semaglutide], but when you combine things and you add different excipients, the effectiveness if you dont measure that in a randomized controlled trial will not be the same. He added that not knowing exactly what the formulation contains makes prescribing too risky for him and the patient: Youre treating 100 patients and all of them have been doing fine with a compound medication you recommend