These compounds are often old, cheap or unpatentable, so no company has a financial incentive to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars a trial costs
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Rapid weight loss raises gallstone risk
The medications are typically administered via subcutaneous injection, with dosing frequencies ranging from daily to once weekly depending on the specific formulation
They can serve an important role when a licensed prescriber determines that an FDA-approved product does not meet an individual patients clinical needs, but they should not be marketed or understood as equivalent to FDA-approved products
Together, these vitamin dependent pathways maintain normal methylation and prevent excessive homocysteine accumulation