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Drug Development Failure: how GLP-1 development wa...
Why would classifying it a shortage make it expensive?
Someone1234
on Aug 30, 2024
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Classifying it as a shortage makes it cheap. It will get expensive when it is off the shortage list.
NotYourLawyer
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That makes no sense.
Someone1234
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The FDA shortage list allows compound pharmacies to produce it without paying for patents/licensing.
TylerE
on Aug 30, 2024
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Being on the shortage list is what allows compounders to sell it. Once that is no longer true, that option goes away.
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