Sounds like somebody bought access to Reta?

[spanky2026]

Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?

Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program.

www.statnews.com

Article implies some well-connected senior citizen got a compassionate use exception for Reta before it is approved? Anyone know more about this? Interesting.

 

[Mr. Blonde]

Compassionate program = paid us a fuck ton of money.

It's just that compassion sounds better than greed.

 

[spanky2026]

Top of my head I'd guess someone who can influence Lily's bid to have it classified as a biologic. Cuz it's pretty much always a "follow the money" kind of thing.

 

[homebrew]

The real story broke almost 2 weeks ago. Lilly has created a clinical trial path to provide expanded access/compassionate use to Retatrutide on a case by case basis. Your physician must apply directly to Lilly and Lilly decides who qualifies.
For more details, go to Clinicaltrials.gov and find NCT07629401. Provide Pre-approval Expanded Access of LY3437943

 

[ZippityDooDah]

If I have to delete another post containing political bullshit, I'm just going to start banning people.

 

[MsGizmo]

If I have to delete another post containing political bullshit, I'm just going to start banning people.

I don't think its political to point out that the single most powerful person in the US who happens to be facing a secret illness just happens to be the same age as the single person given early access to a drug that so many of us have to resort to getting from the grey market. Like it or not the topic kind of matters to the GLP1 community.

I also don't think that its political to point out that GLP1s have been linked to more positive outcomes in cancer treatments. This is a topic that I have been VERY active in researching recently. I kind of need to know about this stuff as do many of us in the community.