{"id":673728,"date":"2026-11-03T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/673728\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:50:10","slug":"tga-approves-new-form-of-weightloss-medicine-wegovy-pill-with-daily-pill-set-to-be-available-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/673728\/","title":{"rendered":"TGA approves new form of weightloss medicine Wegovy pill, with daily pill set to be available before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australians will soon be able to swap weight-loss injections for a pill, with a new form of popular medicine Wegovy approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.<\/p>\n

A once-daily pill will be available to Australians before Christmas, according to 7NEWS, with more than 10,000 residents already signed up to the waiting list.<\/p>\n

Wegovy manufacturer Novo Norsdisk said the company was \u201cworking to bring the new treatment option\u201d, with other GLP-1 medications such as Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro only available in Australia as injections.<\/p>\n

The new pill will be able to be swallowed every morning on an empty stomach.<\/p>\n

A Department of Health spokesman said the Wegovy pill will be available in 1.5mg, 4mg, 9mg and 25mg strengths.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe indications are consistent with those approved for the injectable formulation of Wegovy,\u201d a spokesman said.<\/p>\n

The approval comes just more than three months after Australia\u2019s medicine regulator issued a safety warning over the popular weight-loss drugs, saying they could cause a rare vision disorder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The TGA said those medicines have the potential to cause a rare, but severe, form of eye disorder called non-arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy (NAION).<\/p>\n

The disorder may result in permanent visual impairment, including blindness. There is currently no treatment for it.<\/p>\n

The TGA urges any patients who experience sudden vision loss, even if only partial, should seek urgent medical attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australians will soon be able to swap weight-loss injections for a pill, with a new form of popular…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,113286,61,60,166,371,43],"class_list":["post-673728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-health-wellbeing","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lifestyle","tag-medication","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673728","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=673728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}