Brent James, M.D., an expert on clinical quality improvement and patient safety, told Fierce Healthcare in an email that medicine has a long history of overreacting to a new drug and then quietly moving on when the full set of circumstances become known
Masking Underlying Health Issues Perhaps the most critical concern from a functional medicine perspective is that microdosing and indeed, any use of weight-loss medication without a comprehensive health strategy can become a band-aid solution
The short peptides in these medications are chemically modified so that they last longer in the body and work better than the naturally occurring GLP-1 hormone
Broadening the indications aspect of MariTide is something Amgen has in mind: We're obviously very drawn to those domains where we have longitudinal expertise and experience around cardiovascular risk reduction, around outcomes in heart failure, around the kidney diseases that often commingle with those spaces, said Bradner
Across all income groups, cost barriers remain the limiting factor, signaling that cost continues to dictate access more than medical need
