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If a drug is FDA approved for a particular purpose, that means the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has deemed the drug to be effective for that purpose, based on reviewing extensive data from clinical trials supporting its use
What human evidence exists for this specific question, not just related biology
The committee voted separately on the free-base and acetate form of every peptide
They found a useful target: glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a gut hormone