Compounders had been allowed to produce and sell hundreds of thousands of their own versions of popular anti-obesity drugs, so long as the FDA considered them in shortage.

Eli Lilly, the maker of blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro, said it will invest an additional $27 billion to build four new manufacturing plants in the United States, shoring up domestic manufacturing as President Donald Trump threatens new tariffs on pharmaceuticals.

Eli Lilly partnered up with telehealth providers LifeMD and Teladoc Health to offer its lower cost, single-vial Zepbound (tirzepatide) to patients in the virtual c | The move could be a boon for telehealth weight loss programs,