FDA staff stated the compound lacks sufficient information to know whether the drug would cause harm when administered to humans. The committees public docket drew approximately 1,860 comments before the July 23-24 hearing, reflecting broad interest from patients, clinicians, and compounding pharmacists
Even then, peptide drugs remained limited by delivery challenges, Kates said
Figure 2: Changes in body weight from baseline to the end of treatment at week 26 associated with the treatment policy estimand, in the randomly assigned treatment groups administered either 0.3 mg of cagrilintide, 0.6 mg of cagrilintide, 1.2 mg of cagrilintide, 2.5 mg of cagrilintide, 4.5 mg of cagrilintide, 3.0 mg of liraglutide, or a placebo
Some researchers skip the swab after the first few draws, figuring the bacteriostatic water preservative will handle any contamination