Joie Armstrong asked her doctor about taking a GLP-1 medication to help her lose weight six times before she got a prescription, and then was denied coverage by her insurance company. Adrian, a ...

Why one man — and others in his gray market community — is making tirzepatide at home. Insurance wouldn't cover his weight loss medication. So he started making his own.

Semaglutide and tirzepatide prescriptions for obesity are influenced by race, gender, social vulnerability, and urbanicity, with disparities in access and utilization. Despite increased ...

INDIANAPOLIS – The way people are accessing GLP-1 medications Semaglutide and Tirzepatide is going to become very limited after the drugs were taken off the FDA’s shortage list.

If tirzepatide remains off the FDA's drug shortage list, compounding pharmacies must cease the production of these medications on any significant scale, according to gastroenterologist and obesity ...

Some patients fear that they’ll lose access to tirzepatide because the US Food and Drug Administration determined that a shortage of the brand-name drug has ended – which means compounding of ...

He’s a 30-year-old systems engineer who isn’t taking no for an answer when it comes to access to ... Testing is the biggest expenditure in his tirzepatide-making process (he and other DIY-ers ...