Pharmacists and doctors can make compounded medications by combining, mixing, or altering various ingredients to meet a specific need. But because these medications don’t have Food and Drug ...

What these two processes share is baked into the math of each. In fact, in that respect, they're nearly identical. They both involve some stuff (atoms or money) that is either growing or shrinking.

The decision to prescribe a compounded or brand-name glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) medication for obesity treatment was never simple, but recent developments have complicated it further. In the ...