Medical Disclaimer
What this website is
It is educational material written by a clinic. It explains what tests measure, how medicines work, what Costa Rican regulation requires, and what questions are worth asking.
It is not medical advice, and reading it does not make you our patient.
Why that distinction is not a formality
Medical advice is specific to one person. It requires knowing your history, your medicines, your measurements and your circumstances, and it carries the responsibility of whoever gives it.
Nothing published here knows anything about you. An article explaining the thresholds for HbA1c cannot tell you what yours means, because the same number means different things in a 35-year-old with normal triglycerides and a 60-year-old with fatty liver.
No doctor‑patient relationship is created by reading this site, contacting us with a question, or following anything suggested here. That relationship begins when a physician assesses you individually — and under Costa Rican law, a prescription cannot lawfully precede that assessment.
What we have deliberately not published
These choices follow the Ministry of Health's health warning of 28 October 2025 on the promotion of injectable weight-loss medicines, and they are deliberate rather than accidental:
- No doses. Dosing depends on the individual and the titration schedule, and publishing it invites self-medication.
- No medicine prices, and no price comparison between medicines.
- No before-and-after images, and no claims about how much weight anyone will lose.
- No recommendation of any specific medicine to any reader. Articles explain mechanisms; the decision is always a physician's, made with you.
- No promotion of unregistered substances. Where we name them — retatrutide, tesamorelin, BPC‑157, TB‑500, GHK‑Cu — it is to explain why they sit outside the registered system, following MINSA's warning of 23 July 2026.
About the numbers on this site
Where we cite a threshold, a guideline or a price, we say whose it is and when we checked it. Where we could not establish something, the article says so rather than filling the gap.
Two consequences you should rely on:
- Reference ranges and guideline thresholds change, and they differ between laboratories and between countries. Always read your own result against your own laboratory's range, never against a number from a website.
- Prices move. Laboratory figures quoted here come from the Colegio de Microbiólogos published minimum tariff and were checked on the date each article states. They are a floor, not a quote.
This is not an emergency service
If you are having a medical emergency, do not use this website and do not message the clinic. In Costa Rica, call 9‑1‑1.
Symptoms that need urgent attention rather than an appointment include chest pain, difficulty breathing, signs of stroke, severe abdominal pain, persistent vomiting with dehydration, or any sudden severe symptom. We are a scheduled outpatient service and we do not monitor messages around the clock.
If you are in crisis or thinking of harming yourself, contact emergency services. Do not wait for a reply from us.
Do not stop or change prescribed medicine because of something you read here
Several articles describe how medicines work, their side effects and what happens when they stop. None of that is a reason to alter what another doctor has prescribed you.
If something here raises a question about your treatment, take the question to whoever prescribed it.
External links and third parties
Where we name a laboratory, a pharmacy, a regulator or a study, we are describing something, not endorsing it. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or practices of anything we reference.
Where we have a commercial relationship with a supplier, we disclose it rather than leaving you to discover it.
Jurisdiction
This site is published from Costa Rica by a Costa Rican medical provider and describes Costa Rican practice and regulation. Much of it will not transfer to the rules of your own country.
In particular, which medicines are registered, who may prescribe them and how they are dispensed differ everywhere. A Costa Rican prescription is valid in Costa Rican pharmacies.
Accuracy, and how to tell us we are wrong
Medicine moves, and some of what is published here will age. Each article records when it was written, and where the evidence is genuinely contested we say so and give both sides rather than picking the one that suits us.
If you believe something here is factually wrong, write to us and say which article and which claim. We would rather correct it than defend it.
Last updated 19 October 2026. Cura Vida Clinics Costa Rica LLC Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada.