The Food and Drug Administration gives approval for a new version of Wegovy, a popular diabetes medicine, to be sold as a weight-loss drug.
At long last, a group of respected physicians and obesity researchers has stepped forward to challenge the facile bromide that America’s weight issues can be easily fixed by diet and exercise.
The Danish company hasn’t disclosed Wegovy’s price but said it would be similar to the price of Saxenda, an 11-year-old weight loss drug injected daily that now typically costs more than $1,300 per month without insurance., head of the diabetes program at Houston Methodist Hospital, said Wegovy’s usefulness “all depends on what the price will be.” She noted patients’ health insurance plans sometime don’t cover weight-loss treatments, putting expensive drugs out of reach.
Sadhu, who has no connection to Novo Nordisk, plans to switch patients who are obese and have Type 2 diabetes to Wegovy. It makes patients feel full sooner and increases the release of insulin from the pancreas to control blood sugar, she said. Patients would then be more likely to get motivated to exercise and eat more healthfully, she added.Wegovy builds on a trend in which makers of relatively new diabetes drugs test them to treat other conditions common in diabetics.
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