From a litigation standpoint, the argument is clear: patients were never given the chance to make an informed decision, and many never would have agreed to use Ozempic had they been properly warned
"This is the first clinical trial to demonstrate that semaglutide may improve liver fibrosis in patients with advanced MASH, including those with compensated cirrhosis," said Rohit Loomba, MD, senior author of the study, gastroenterologist and hepatologist at UC San Diego Health and chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at UC San Diego School of Medicine
Others are technically long-term but come with monitoring requirements, side effects, stopping rules or limits on how much weight patients could expect to lose
For many Americans, this frustration has led them to look across the border, asking whether they can get GLP-1 medications in Canada for a more manageable price