Research also shows it shortens illness duration, decreases symptom severity, and helps people feel better faster compared to conventional over-the-counter treatments
Medicaid covers GLP-1s for diabetes and sometimes for weight loss, despite added controls
An independent external adjudication committee (EAC) validated prespecified categories of adverse events (including deaths, selected cardiovascular events, malignant neoplasms, thyroid diseases [malignant thyroid neoplasms and C-cell hyperplasia], acute kidney injury, acute pancreatitis, and lactic acidosis) except in SUSTAIN 10 where there was no adjudication
He has also served on the speakers bureau of Eli Lilly & Co., Merck, Sharp & Dohme, Medscape, Medical Learning Institute, and NovoNordisk
However, research has not confirmed they are safe or effective for this purpose