From a patient and providers perspective, the official FDA shortage list unfortunately doesnt always reflect patients reality in real-time (it was never designed to do so and its not an inventory management system)
The Inflation Reduction Act opened a pathway for Medicare to cover Wegovy for cardiovascular risk reduction in patients who meet specific criteria following the SELECT trial results, but as of now this coverage remains narrow and plan-specific
Ozempic (semaglutide) lowers blood sugar in people with Type 2 diabetes by encouraging the pancreas to make more insulin, slowing digestion, and keeping the liver from releasing more sugar
Asteroid hyalosis can be diagnosed by an eye care professional and does not usually require treatment unless it affects a persons vision
no thyroid function tests were done
As all eligible cases from the database were included and the sample size was inherently determined by disease incidence, no formal sample size or power calculation was carried out