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Off-label use adds billions to profits
Posted 8 April 2025 AM
New Australian research has put a figure on the widespread off-label use of GLP-1RA medicines triggering shortages of the diabetes drug in Australia and around the world.
In 2022, around one in three dollars earned by pharmas in the United States for GLP1-RAs intended to treat diabetes came from patients who were non-diabetic. The estimate has a wide margin of error, but is backed up by years-long shortages of the medicines.
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Posted 8 April 2025 AM
New Australian research has put a figure on the widespread off-label use of GLP-1RA medicines triggering shortages of the diabetes drug in Australia and around the world.
In 2022, around one in three dollars earned by pharmas in the United States for GLP1-RAs intended to treat diabetes came from patients who were non-diabetic. The estimate has a wide margin of error, but is backed up by years-long shortages of the medicines.
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