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Halifax Regional Police release Dartmouth suspect’s name and photo | SaltWire #news #novascotiaCOPENHAGEN - Denmark will start putting patients suffering from type 2 diabetes on cheaper drugs before prescribing so-called GLP-1 drugs such as Novo Nordisk's Ozempic, the Danish Medicines Agency said on Wednesday.
Doctors and other prescribers in the UK were in July ordered to stop prescribing Ozempic to people who don't have type 2 diabetes, following a national shortage of GLP-1 drugs due to the soaring demand for approved and off-label use.
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