Pharmacists and doctors can make compounded medications by combining, mixing, or altering various ingredients to meet a specific need. But because these medications don’t have Food and Drug ...

With social media fueling the huge demand for drugs like Ozempic, Rybelsus, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, which are helping people to lose more weight than any previous weight loss medications, it’s no ...

Patients have been buying compounded weight loss drugs at lower prices than brand-name medications amid shortages of tirzepatide and semaglutide. (Getty Images) Compounding pharmacies will have to ...

Private equity firms and hospitals are investing in compounding pharmacies as hundreds of drug shortages afflict healthcare, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 7. Compounding pharmacies are held to ...

Drugmaker Novo Nordisk is taking action to curb the massively popular compounded semaglutide industry, which provides copies of its blockbuster weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy to patients—often ...

Online pharmacies offering compounded versions of weight loss drugs filled the gap during a GLP-1 shortage. These people say they were a lifeline. (Getty Creative) Is the era of sourcing cheaper ...

At-home drug tests are urine or saliva tests that can identify if illegal or prescriptions drugs are present in your body. These tests are an alternative to going in person to a laboratory or other ...

The days of cheaper alternatives to popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound are over for some Long Islanders and are numbered for others, pharmacists and compounding industry groups say.