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GLP-1 Shortage Ended: Can You Still Legally Prescribe or Compound Semaglutide and Tirzepatide?

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For the past several years, physicians and compounding pharmacies have stepped in to address critical patient access gaps during U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shortage declarations for semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy)...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

GLP-1 Update: Court Backs FDA in Tirzepatide Compounding Case

On May 7, 2025, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas upheld the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) decision to remove two tirzepatide injection medications from the FDA’s drug shortage list. This...more

Burr & Forman

The FDA Removes Semaglutide from the Drug Shortage List

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The Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has removed semaglutide from its drug shortage list after the agency determined the current supply of the drug can meet present and future demand. On February 21, 2025, the FDA updated...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: Drug Litigation Overview and Trends

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The recent uptick and rise in popularity of GLP-1 drugs for addressing weight loss and obesity has led to an increase in U.S. litigation involving this class of drugs. Over the past few years, litigation has focused on a wide...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Compounding Problems: Recent Decisions on Tirzepatide Highlight Interplay Between FDA Anti-Compounding Enforcement and Private...

Earlier this month, a federal district court denied the Outsourcing Facilities Association’s preliminary injunction motion, which sought to preclude FDA from taking enforcement action against compounded tirzepatide...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Off Shortage List; Deadlines to Stop Compounding

Glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists, a class of medications known as GLP-1s, have grown in popularity, initially for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and more recently for obesity and other labeled and off-label indications for...more

Hendershot Cowart P.C.

FDA Update: Current Guidelines for Semaglutide and Tirzepatide Compounding

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Weight loss clinics, telehealth companies, physicians, and pharmacies that have been prescribing or dispensing compounded GLP-1 medications must prepare for significant changes following the Food and Drug Administration’s...more

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End of Semaglutide Shortage Means Big Changes for Prescribers and Compounders

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On February 21, the FDA announced that the shortage of semaglutide injection products has been resolved. Semaglutide has appeared on the FDA’s Drug Shortage List since 2022 because demand for the drug exceeded the available...more

Fuerst Ittleman David & Joseph

The GLP-1 Saga Continues: FDA Ends the Tirzepatide Shortage: Frequently Asked Questions

On December 19, 2024, FDA formally announced the end of the tirzepatide shortage in a Declaratory Order issued to Eli Lilly & Co. (“Lilly”). Lilly is tirzepatide’s patentholder and the manufacturer of the two branded versions...more

Fuerst Ittleman David & Joseph

Lilly v. FDA: Two Stories Collide to Make this GLP-1 Case a Tale of Our Time

I recently learned of Eli Lilly & Co.’s (“Lilly”) recent lawsuit against FDA from Nicole DeFeudis, who interviewed me for her Endpoints News story about the case. Lilly’s lawsuit, filed in September 2024 in the Southern...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FDA Announced Removal of Tirzepatide from the Drug Shortage List

On December 19, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a declaratory order determining that the shortage of diabetes and weight-loss tirzepatide injection products (Mounjaro and Zepbound; Eli Lilly and...more

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Novo Nordisk Urges FDA to Ban Compounded Semaglutide – What Weight-Loss Clinic Owners Need to Know

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Novo Nordisk, the manufacturer of Ozempic and Wegovy, has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to add semaglutide, the active ingredient in Wegovy and Ozempic, to the "Demonstrable Difficulties for Compounding"...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Tirzepatide Shortage Resolved

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On October 3, 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revised its shortage categorization of tirzepatide, a glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) medication, marking the shortage as “resolved” for all presentations of the...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Will India Replace China in the U.S. Drug Supply Chain?

In a recent opinion piece in Newsweek, Dr. Rahul Tiwari asserts that pharmaceutical companies in India have an opportunity to supplant China's dominant position in producing active pharmaceutical ingredients ("API's") and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Unfinished Health Care Business: 10 Issues to Watch as Congress Rings in the New Year

Health care was one of the most active issue areas in 2023 and this trend is expected to continue when Congress returns in the New Year for the second session of the 118th Congress. The activity by the health committees of...more

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CMS Issues Revised Guidance Implementing Medicare Inflation Rebates Under the Inflation Reduction Act

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to take steps implementing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA). Newly revised guidance issued on December 14, 2023, makes notable changes and clarifications...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Biden Administration Promotes Domestic Pharmaceutical Production to Reduce Drug Shortages

I'm not saying that anyone from the Biden administration was reading my blog post last week on drug shortages, and maybe it's just a coincidence that the White House announced new efforts to strengthen supply chains less than...more

Morgan Lewis - As Prescribed

The Current State of FDA’s Drug Shortage Playbook

As drug shortages are once again front-page crises news, demanding drastic action by FDA—currently with a particular focus on sterile, injectable platinum-based chemotherapy drugs—a refresher on the scope of FDA’s tools to...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

FDA White Paper Signals Shift to Performance-Based Reviews of Mature Quality Systems

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) recently published a White Paper laying out a framework to evaluate the Quality Management...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The “Preventing Essential Medical Device Shortages Act of 2020”: COVID-19 Side Effect that Could Permanently Harm Medical Device...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic crisis—infecting more than 2.7 million people worldwide, with almost 870,000 cases in the United States alone as of the writing of this article—has thrown nearly every industry into chaos as the...more

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