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Choose a word. Get its meaning, then the question it helps you ask.
For a straight read, start with tesamorelin and follow the next-page links.
- Read in context
- A definition helps most when it leads to a real question.
Words about the medicine
- Tesamorelin
- A medicine that signals your body to release growth hormone it makes itself.
- Lipodystrophy
- A shift in the way fat is spread around the body.
- Approved use
- The illness or problem a particular medicine is approved to treat by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
- Biologic
- A legal group of medicines that includes tesamorelin and insulin; pharmacies cannot make copies of them.
- Compounding
- Making or altering medicine to suit a particular patient, in place of a finished drug product.
- Trial
- A study that compares treatments to see what changes.
- Ask for the name
- Write down a term you do not know and bring it to the visit.
Words about getting care
- Telehealth
- A care visit by video, phone or written messages online.
- Licence
- Permission from a state licensing board to work as a health professional.
- Follow-up
- The checks and conversations after the first care decision.
- Total cost
- The full quote, with the medicine, visits and any tests set out.
- Formulary
- An insurance plan’s list of the medicines it covers.
- Question map
- Prompts to help you ask what a care offer means.
- Read the full answer
- A short label on an advert can leave out the detail you need.
Words worth stopping for
- Contraindication
- A reason the drug label says a medicine must not be used.
- Side effect
- An unwanted effect that can happen during treatment.
- Research use only
- A label that does not turn an online product into an approved medicine.