The current drug shortage has limited access for patients with diabetes who rely on it to control their blood sugar
Digital health companies make medications like Ozempic easier to get by providing prescriptions online. Many advertise quick and easy — sometimes same-day — access. “Anecdotally, it’s almost easier to get medication [via digital health companies],” said Dr. Disha Narang, endocrinologist and director of obesity medicine at Northwestern Medicine, Lake Forest Hospital. “But not always the safest.
Supply will likely be strained through mid-March, according to the FDA drug shortages database. Ozempic prescriptions in the US reached an all-time high in the last week of February, with over 373,000 prescriptions filled, according to a J.P. Morgan analysis of IQVIA data shared with CNN. That’s an increase of 111%, compared with the same week in 2022. Of these, more than half were new prescriptions, according to a CNN review of J.P. Morgan’s analysis.
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