{"id":786691,"date":"2026-07-08T09:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786691\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T09:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:56:08","slug":"novo-nordisk-eli-lilly-target-australian-market-with-new-oral-glp-1-weight-loss-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786691\/","title":{"rendered":"Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly target Australian market with new oral GLP-1 weight-loss drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novo Nordisk, the Danish company that makes Ozempic and Wegovy, says Australia is a high-priority market for its new weight-loss pill which went on sale in Britain this week, raising hopes the alternative to a weekly injection will be available by early next year.<\/p>\n<p>Novo Nordisk would not put a timeframe on the Australian launch of the Wegovy pill because it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/healthcare-and-fitness\/eli-lilly-confirms-oral-glp-1-weight-loss-drug-being-evaluated-by-tga-20260304-p5o7i9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">still needs to be approved<\/a> by the medicines\u2019 regulator, but said it expected demand to be huge based on what it had seen from sales in the United States and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novo Nordisk, the Danish company that makes Ozempic and Wegovy, says Australia is a high-priority market for its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":["post-786691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786691","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=786691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}