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Surge in unapproved GLP-1 drugs alarming poison control, safe medicine advocates

The CA Poison Control System says it's receiving constant calls from people reporting getting sick and even hospitalized after taking GLP-1 drugs, many of them...

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China has found a new illicit drug market. America must shut it down

Chinese chemical manufacturers linked to fentanyl precursors are now shipping retatrutide, an unapproved GLP-1 peptide, into American homes through customs fraud.

2 days ago·New York, United States

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Boom Shopping for Slimming Drugs, the Expert Alarm: "I'm Not an Aesthetic Shortcut, They Have Very Powerful Effects Here Is What You Risk Using Them without a Diagnosis"

Semaglutide and Tirzepatide are profoundly changing the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity. But their therapeutic success is creating a misunderstanding: to consider them simply as slimming drugs. Actually, when prescribed to a patient with diabetes or clinically significant obesity, we are faced with pharmacological therapies for chronic diseases, with [...] The article Boom buying slimming drugs, the alarm of experts: "I'm not an aesthet…

2 days ago·Rome, Italy

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Surge in unapproved GLP-1 drugs alarming poison control, safe medicine advocates

The CA Poison Control System says it's receiving constant calls from people reporting getting sick and even hospitalized after taking GLP-1 drugs, many of them...

3 days ago·San Jose, United States

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Use of Drugs Against Obesity on Its Own and of Dubious Origin Is a Growing Public Health Problem

GLP-1 analogue drugs, such as semaglutide and liraglutide, have changed the treatment of obesity. The risk arises when they are bought without prescription or provenance, and applied without diagnosis.

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Surge in unapproved GLP-1 drugs alarming poison control, safe medicine advocates

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China has found a new illicit drug market. America must shut it down

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