Opinion | This Is What a Miracle Drug Looks Like, and It Costs Only $5 to Make
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Opinion | This Is What a Miracle Drug Looks Like, and It Costs Only $5 to Make
The surprising mental health and brain benefits of weight-loss drugs
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Ozempic® may cause serious side effects, including:
Possible thyroid tumors, including cancer.
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Of course, the most obvious example is Ozempic, the weight loss drug du jour among the elites, which works by suppressing hunger. Ozempic’s impact has been so seismic that analysts have reckoned the drug could have an unprecedented impact on food consumption. “I obviously don’t know when someone is taking drugs,” Anthony Geich, director of guest re
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Because COMPASS breaks big pharma’s model -- it involves expensive in-person treatment and doesn’t need to be prescribed over a long period of time -- none of the major pharmaceutical companies are competing with COMPASS in the space.
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Ten Drugs- thomas Hager
People have different diseases, doctors hold different ideas about those diseases, and diseases carry different meanings in society
No drug is good, no drug is bad, for every drug is both
Poppy seeds- over 10,000 years ago- in today’s Syria
Opium was appealing because it always pitched the body while romancing the imagination... See more
People have different diseases, doctors hold different ideas about those diseases, and diseases carry different meanings in society
No drug is good, no drug is bad, for every drug is both
Poppy seeds- over 10,000 years ago- in today’s Syria
Opium was appealing because it always pitched the body while romancing the imagination... See more
One interesting change to watch is the expansion of the types of drugs that can be prescribed via a telemedicine-only visit. You can even get controlled substances like opioids via telemedicine now (don’t get any ideas). I wonder if we’ll look back on this and discover we don’t really need face-to-face visits for most prescriptions, or if we’ll rea... See more
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