The European Medicines Agency announced on Friday that it has found no causal association between GLP-1 receptor agonists—a popular class of weight-loss treatments that include Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy (semaglutide)—and the risks of suicidal thoughts and actions.
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A Florida judge on Tuesday dismissed Eli Lilly’s case against a compounding pharmacy, finding that the drugmaker cannot use state law in its campaign against reformulated versions of the company’s top-selling weight-loss and diabetes medication tirzepatide.
GLP-1 receptor agonists—a popular drug class that includes Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic (semaglutide) and Victoza (liraglutide)—do not appear to increase the risk of thyroid cancer, according to a new study published Wednesday in The BMJ.
The European Medicines Agency is set to review several diabetes and weight-loss treatments this week in connection with potential increased risk of suicidal ideation and self-harm, according to a draft agenda document of the agency’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee.
The retailer will offer its members access to weight-loss programs, including prescription drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, from online healthcare services provider Sesame, as the companies expanded their partnership.
A drugmaker in China has developed a biosimilar version of Novo Nordisk’s (NOVOb.CO) popular diabetes drug Ozempic and applied for approval to sell it there, in a potential challenge to Novo’s expansion plans in the country.
Citing a JAMA study that found Ozempic could be profitably produced at under $5 per month, Senator Bernie Sanders on Wednesday called on Novo Nordisk to lower prices for the diabetes treatment and the weight-loss drug Wegovy.
Large volumes of diabetes drug Ozempic are not being exported from Germany, its health ministry said, quashing a suggestion by its drugs regulator that outbound trade in the drug, coveted for its weight-loss effect, may have to be banned.
Novo Nordisk expects to file for regulatory approvals of a label expansion for Ozempic in the US and EU in 2024. The detailed results from FLOW will be presented at a scientific conference in 2024.
Even as they are gathering proof of extensive benefits to patients, the manufacturers of GLP-1s will have to overcome supply chain difficulties and high prices to get payers to fund these medicines for treating obesity.
