STAT | Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Follow STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about an FDA panel and peptides, a Merck license for an HIV pill, and more In a win for peptide proponents, an FDA advisory panel recommended compounding pharmacies be allowed to make four of the drugs https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2026/07/24/fda-panel-peptides-merck-hiv-pill-license/ statnews.com