{"id":444275,"date":"2026-01-31T02:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/444275\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T02:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:32:10","slug":"novos-wegovy-pill-tracks-over-26000-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/444275\/","title":{"rendered":"Novo&#8217;s Wegovy pill tracks over 26,000 prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Jan 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Novo Nordisk&#8217;s Wegovy pill hits over \u200b26,000 U.S. prescriptions in \u200cthe second full week after its launch, \u200cIQVIA data shared by an analyst on Friday showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Investors are closely watching prescription data \u2060to see \u200cif the Danish drugmaker can press its first-mover \u200dadvantage against rival Eli Lilly in a competitive weight-loss market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The Wegovy \u200bpill was prescribed 26,109 times \u200cfor the week ended January 23, suggesting the launch of the oral drug is very strong, Barclays analysts wrote \u2060in a note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The \u200bpill hit 3,071 \u200bU.S. prescriptions in the first four days after its \u200dlaunch \u2060on January 5, and over 18000 prescriptions in the \u2060week ended January 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Sriparna \u200cRoy in Bengaluru; Editing \u200cby Vijay Kishore)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Novo Nordisk&#8217;s Wegovy pill hits over \u200b26,000 U.S. prescriptions in \u200cthe second full week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,377,5246,26610,963],"class_list":["post-444275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-novo-nordisk","tag-pill","tag-prescriptions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}