Some consumers take tiny doses of Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs or stretch out doses to cut costs and side effects.

Obesity can have a distinct impact on the absorption, effectiveness and excretion of antibiotics, medications that have been ...

A doctor taking the drug is trying a "maintenance dose" approach ... symptoms if patients suddenly stop taking it, that doesn't mean tapering is a bad idea. For now, I'm on what I call a ...

The company is prioritizing higher, or so-called maintenance, doses of the medicine ... a year earlier — meaning half a million Americans have prescriptions for the drug.

So, what comes next? You have a few options, from stopping cold turkey, to phasing out the drugs, to looking for a maintenance dose. This option comes with weighty words of caution.

Dosage is listed in mg of drug per kilogram of body weight (mg/kg). Strength Recommended starting dosage Maintenance dosage 100 mg/mL 10 mg/kg once every 2 weeks After 18 months, the regimen of 10 ...

As a study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology notes, a technical definition of a microdose would be a dose of a drug that is only 1% of the active dose. However, the more common term for ...

The US Food and Drug Administration ... higher doses. The labeling for Suboxone, a combination of buprenorphine and naloxone, and its generic equivalents currently states that for maintenance ...

In a clinical study, the 5mg maintenance dose helped patients ... 15mg/0.5mL prefilled single-dose pens. The FDA recently updated its Drug Shortages tracker to indicate that all dosages of ...

Eli Lilly on Tuesday released higher doses of its weight loss drug Zepbound in single-dose ... the amount per week and later take so-called maintenance doses to keep the weight off.