{"id":776217,"date":"2026-07-03T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/776217\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T09:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:55:31","slug":"canada-approves-first-generic-semaglutide-injection-for-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/776217\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada approves first generic semaglutide injection for weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health Canada has approved the first generic semaglutide injection for weight loss<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Health Canada has approved the first generic semaglutide injection for weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>The product from the Canadian company Apotex is known as Svemia and is a generic version of the brand-name drug Wegovy from Denmark&#8217;s Novo Nordisk.<\/p>\n<p>Health Canada says Svemia is for the once-weekly treatment of people 12 and over, as a supplement to a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity for chronic weight management.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the third generic semaglutide product approved by the department, though the first two were authorized for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes in adults.<\/p>\n<p>Generic versions of Novo Nordisk&#8217;s Ozempic by India-based Dr. Reddy&#8217;s Laboratories and Apotex were approved earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Health Canada says it&#8217;s reviewing six other submissions for generic semaglutide from different companies and expects to make more decisions in the coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 29, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health Canada has approved the first generic semaglutide injection for weight loss OTTAWA \u2014 Health Canada has approved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490,368150],"class_list":["post-776217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-semaglutide-medicationssemaglutide-injection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776217","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=776217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}