Posts Tagged ‘generic drugs’

Joe’s Generic Bar, Austin, TX, photograph by Jmabel, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

Compounding, Generic Drugs, and Dietary Supplements

March 26, 2025 — In the U.S., we are at a critical point for the sourcing obesity medicines. March 19 was the last day that FDA would tolerate large scale compounding of tirzepatide on account of the now resolved shortage of that drug. The same milestone for semaglutide is coming up on May 22. Some people are not happy. […]

Generic Liraglutide Is Here – Will It Make Any Difference?

June 26, 2024 — One of the four dimensions that sum to a terrible problem of inadequate scale in obesity care is cost. Right now, the list prices for obesity medicines like semaglutide and tirzepatide in the U.S. put them out of reach for all but the wealthy and the well-insured. So will it help that a generic GLP-1 agonist – […]