{"id":455876,"date":"2026-02-05T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455876\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:22:08","slug":"novo-nordisk-to-take-legal-action-against-hims-hers-for-wegovy-compounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455876\/","title":{"rendered":"Novo Nordisk to take legal action against Hims &#038; Hers for Wegovy compounding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">COPENHAGEN, Feb 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Novo Nordisk said on Thursday it \u200bwould take legal action \u200cagainst Hims &amp; Hers after the online \u200ctelehealth company said it will begin offering compounded copies of the Danish group&#8217;s Wegovy pill \u2060at an \u200cintroductory price of $49 per month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;The action by Hims &amp; \u200dHers is illegal mass compounding that poses a significant risk to patient \u200bsafety,&#8221; the Danish drugmaker \u200csaid in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;Novo Nordisk will take legal and regulatory action to protect patients, our intellectual property and the integrity \u2060of the U.S. \u200bgold-standard drug approval \u200bframework,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Novo Nordisk said it was the only company \u200dthat manufactured \u2060an FDA-approved Wegovy pill formulated with SNAC technology, which \u2060facilitates semaglutide absorption when administered orally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting \u200cby Louise Rasmussen, editing \u200cby Anna Ringstrom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COPENHAGEN, Feb 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Novo Nordisk said on Thursday it \u200bwould take legal action \u200cagainst Hims &amp;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,187009,84,16610,65986,377,5246],"class_list":["post-455876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-danish-group","tag-health","tag-hims","tag-legal-action","tag-medication","tag-novo-nordisk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455876","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=455876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}