Semaglutide, marketed as Ozempic and Wegovy for injection or Rybelsus as an oral tablet, is a GLP-1 receptor agonist approved by the FDA for type 2 diabetes and chronic weight management
All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript
And if a compounding pharmacy tells you that theres a certain amount of the active drug in an injection, that cant be verified independently, said Low Wang who is also a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus
Rybelsus has been a powerful tool, but not an easy one
Crucially, NHS prescribing of GLP-1 medications is subject to strict eligibility criteria and typically requires specialist initiation or shared care arrangements
1041 Derivation of a preference-based value set for the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) to allow calculation of Mental Well-being Adjusted Life Years (MWALYs) Hei Hang Edmund Yiu 1 , Stavros Petrou 2 , Sarah Stewart-Brown 3 , David Churchman 4 , Jason Madan 3 1 Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2 Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 3 Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK, 4 InSpired Health Outcomes, Witne, UK Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes 2026 , 10(Suppl 1) :1041 Aims Concerns have been raised about the sensitivity of widely used preference-based instruments, such as the EQ-5D, in valuing mental health benefits