Wegovy injection pens arranged successful Waterbury, Vermont, US, connected Monday, April 28, 2025.
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WeightWatchers' CEO said connected Wednesday it plans to connection Novo Nordisk's much-anticipated Wegovy successful pill signifier if it is launched adjacent twelvemonth successful the United States, deepening its tie-up with the Danish obesity drugmaker.
The collaboration is simply a imaginable boost for WeightWatchers arsenic it emerges from bankruptcy and highlights its committedness to connection branded obesity drugs, dissimilar rivals that propulsion cheaper copies successful a highly competitory market.
"We person been moving with Novo Nordisk up of clip to enactment the motorboat of oral weight-loss medication," WeightWatchers CEO Tara Comonte said successful an interview.
"A batch of radical don't privation an injection. And the convenience of a pill is going to beryllium huge," she said.
Weight nonaccomplishment pills from Novo and rival Eli Lilly are nether information for a new, speedy U.S. reappraisal pathway that tin shave months from the mean support process.
WeightWatchers could support much customers connected its level than telehealth rivals, arsenic doctors expect U.S. patients to power to the branded medicines erstwhile prices travel down nether a woody announced past week by the White House.
Lilly and Novo agreed to slash prices of their fashionable GLP-1 injectable drugs for U.S. authorities wellness programs and cash-paying customers.
Starter doses of the weight-loss pills, if approved, volition outgo $149 a period for Medicare and Medicaid enrollees and for currency payers done the U.S. administration's caller TrumpRx site.
"Anything that brings pricing down for these medications is bully for WeightWatchers," Comonte said.
WeightWatchers is besides trying to summation a stronger foothold successful women's health, including done tailored programs that connection GLP-1 medicines and hormone replacement therapy.
Outside of the U.S., Germany and the UK are large markets for WeightWatchers, which had 4 cardinal subscribers worldwide astatine the extremity of 2023.
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