Across social media and encrypted messaging apps, a new frontier of weight loss is unfolding in real time, with people sourcing and injecting an experimental drug that regulators have not yet approved.

Lerodalcibep-liga, a once-monthly PCSK9 inhibitor, significantly reduces LDL-C in hypercholesterolemia, including HeFH, with FDA approval for subcutaneous use. The LIBerate Program showed sustained LDL-C reductions of 60% or greater in high-risk CVD patients and 50% in HeFH, with good tolerability.

Unregulated peptide injections have become popular in wellness circles, used for everything from building muscle mass to slowing aging.

Given that HCV is a bloodborne virus, any circumstance that promotes continued drug injection—including failure to prevent or diagnose and adequately treat substance use disorders—can result in persistent transmission of this virus and other bloodborne ...

The idea for this post was initiated when I read a snippet in The Fortean Times about a 34-year old man from New York who injected cocaine into his penis and ended up with gangrene and further medical complications. It turns out that this report was based ...