Posts Tagged ‘drug dosing’

Drug Studies, Labels, and Dosing Only for Lean Persons?

November 8, 2023 — Public health experts have long been accounting for it. People are living in larger bodies. Better than 40% of U.S. adults have a body weight in the range of obesity. But new reporting from JoNel Aleccia for the Associated Press tells us that pharma and the FDA are not yet accounting for this fact. It’s […]

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The Right Drug at the Wrong Dose in 4 Out of 10 Americans

October 23, 2023 — It’s a “deficit of information” we should correct, says FDA Commissioner Robert Califf. He is speaking about the gap in information about how to correctly dose drugs for people living with obesity. Karen Weintraub, reporting for USA Today, tells us this gap might mean that doctors are prescribing the right drug at the wrong dose […]