Food and Drug Administration reissued a decision first made by the agency in October that a shortage of the diabetes/weight-loss med tirzepatide is over
And this is what sparked Lowes attention as Sandozs chief executive officer (CEO), Richard Saynor, told Endpoint News that the company was planning to launch a GLP-1 generic in Canada as soon as governmental protection of semaglutide expires in 2026, because, according to him, Novo didnt have the patent to protect it further
Along with weight loss, Faubions study found that both groups of women on semaglutide drugs showed improvement in heart health measures like A1C (a marker for diabetes) and blood pressure, although the women who were also on MHT did see more significant improvement in their overall cholesterol levels
Notably, the STEP (Semaglutide Treatment Effect in People with obesity) trials, which specifically examined body composition, demonstrated substantial weight loss compared with placebo (NCT03548935) [53], and reductions in fat mass and visceral adipose tissue were accompanied by decreases in lean mass, although the proportion of lean mass relative to total body mass increased (NCT04074161) [54]