{"id":393211,"date":"2026-01-05T13:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393211\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:46:11","slug":"from-weight-loss-injections-to-pills-wegovy-goes-oral-for-us-users-starting-at-us149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393211\/","title":{"rendered":"From weight-loss injections to pills: Wegovy goes oral for US users, starting at US$149"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>COPENHAGEN, Jan 5 \u2014 Denmark\u2019s Novo Nordisk will offer its 1.5 and 4 \u200dmilligram Wegovy weightloss pills at US$149 (about RM685) per month \u200cto self-paying patients in the United States from January 5, it said on \u200dMonday.<\/p>\n<p>It will from the same date offer the highest doses of the drug pill, of 9 and 25 milligram, at US$299 (about RM1,217) per month, it said on its website.<\/p>\n<p>The price for the 4 milligram dose will \u200drise \u200dto US$199 (about RM810) per month from April 15, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The US Food and \u200bDrug Administration on December 22 approved the pill, giving Novo Nordisk a leg up as it looks to regain lost ground from rival \u200cEli Lilly.<\/p>\n<p>The semaglutide pills contain the same active ingredient as injectable Wegovy \u200dand Ozempic, and will be \u200csold \u200dunder the brand name Wegovy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Novo Nordisk \u200dalready sells an oral semaglutide for \u200dtype 2 diabetes, Rybelsus. \u2014 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COPENHAGEN, Jan 5 \u2014 Denmark\u2019s Novo Nordisk will offer its 1.5 and 4 \u200dmilligram Wegovy weightloss pills at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490,210323,210326,210325,7532,147977,210324],"class_list":["post-393211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-novo-nordisk-wegovy","tag-rybelsus","tag-semaglutide-pills","tag-type-2-diabetes","tag-us-food-and-drug-administration","tag-wegovy-weightloss-pills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}