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How an experimental weight-loss drug is being openly promoted by physicians
Doctors are jumping the gun to prescribe a medication lacking FDA approval that has gone viral on social media. "Why are we waiting?" one physician asked.
Touted as the next generation in the GLP-1 craze, it's an experimental weight-loss drug that is not authorized outside of clinical trials. The Food and Drug Administration hasn't reviewed whether it is safe and effective, which is the legal path for prescription drugs to come to market. And yet retatrutide is for sale all over the internet, a phenomenon with no modern precedent.
It isn't just shadowy online vendors offering what they claim to be research-grade retatrutide. …
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