{"id":137734,"date":"2025-11-13T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137734\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:04:08","slug":"weightwatchers-to-offer-novo-nordisks-wegovy-pill-after-2026-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137734\/","title":{"rendered":"WeightWatchers to offer Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy pill after 2026 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wegovy injection pens arranged in Waterbury, Vermont, US, on Monday, April 28, 2025.<\/p>\n

Shelby Knowles | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n

WeightWatchers’<\/a> CEO said on Wednesday it plans to offer Novo Nordisk’s<\/a> much-anticipated Wegovy in pill form if it is launched next year in the United States, deepening its tie-up with the Danish obesity drugmaker.<\/p>\n

The collaboration is a potential boost for WeightWatchers as it emerges from bankruptcy and highlights its commitment to offer branded obesity drugs, unlike rivals that push cheaper copies in a highly competitive market.<\/p>\n

“We have been working with Novo Nordisk ahead of time to support the launch of oral weight-loss medication,” WeightWatchers CEO Tara Comonte said in an interview.<\/p>\n

“A lot of people don’t want an injection. And the convenience of a pill is going to be huge,” she said.<\/p>\n

Weight loss pills from Novo and rival Eli Lilly<\/a> are under consideration for a new, speedy U.S. review pathway that can shave months from the normal approval process.<\/p>\n

WeightWatchers could keep more customers on its platform than telehealth rivals, as doctors expect U.S. patients to switch to the branded medicines once prices come down under a deal announced last week by the White House.<\/p>\n

Lilly and Novo agreed to slash prices of their popular GLP-1 injectable drugs for U.S. government health programs and cash-paying customers.<\/p>\n

Starter doses of the weight-loss pills, if approved, will cost $149 a month for Medicare and Medicaid enrollees and for cash payers through the U.S. administration’s new TrumpRx site.<\/p>\n

“Anything that brings pricing down for these medications is good for WeightWatchers,” Comonte said.<\/p>\n

WeightWatchers is also trying to gain a stronger foothold in women’s health, including through tailored programs that offer GLP-1 medicines and hormone replacement therapy.<\/p>\n

Outside of the U.S., Germany and the UK are major markets for WeightWatchers, which had 4 million subscribers worldwide at the end of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wegovy injection pens arranged in Waterbury, Vermont, US, on Monday, April 28, 2025. Shelby Knowles | Bloomberg |…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2691,72,122,2688,103,397,2690,396,61,60,2689,1691,79558],"class_list":["post-137734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-biotech-and-pharmaceuticals","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-eli-lilly-and-co","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-industry","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-novo-nordisk-a-s","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-ww-international-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}