If you’re eligible for weight loss medication, there are a fair number of options. Your provider will go over your unique health profile and goals and recommend a prescription to meet your specific ...

The FDA has spent much of 2025 issuing warnings about a single, recurring problem with GLP-1 weight loss drugs: patients and ...

Whether it’s due to an ingredient allergy or other reasons, compounding pharmacies can help tailor a custom-made medication to meet your needs. And when drug shortages happen, they can play an ...

Millions of Americans have increasingly turned to GLP-1 medications to lose weight and improve their health. These drugs have ...

The Food and Drug Administration allows for licensed compounding pharmacies to make copies of certain drugs in short supply, and that has included semaglutide and tirzepatide, the main ingredients in ...

FDA issues guidance compounded GLP-1 production limits, restricting pharmacies to compound only during active shortages to ensure drug safety and ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Once opened, compounded semaglutide typically lasts 28 days ...

Julia Ingram is a data journalist for CBS News Confirmed. She uses data analysis and computation to cover misinformation, AI and social media. Readdy, who has struggled with her weight for most of her ...

Compounded semaglutide is a medication that’s custom-made by a compounding pharmacy. It contains the active ingredient semaglutide, which is a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist.