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GLP‑1 news from 2003

1 dated, sourced GLP-1 developments from 2003: approvals, trial results, prices, lawsuits, compounding and culture.

  1. Business

    Medicare Modernization Act excludes weight-loss drugs from Part D

    The statute creating Medicare Part D barred coverage of drugs used for weight loss, a provision that would shape every US obesity drug access debate for the next two decades and that still requires an act of Congress to change permanently.

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