{"id":510699,"date":"2026-04-03T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510699\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:59:13","slug":"emcure-reduces-price-of-weight-management-drug-poviztra-by-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510699\/","title":{"rendered":"Emcure reduces price of weight management drug Poviztra by 55%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tEmcure reduces price of weight management drug Poviztra by 55%<\/p>\n<p class=\"float-left\"> April 02, 2026 | Thursday | News <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrice revision, effective April 3, 2026, will bring the innovator molecule within the reach of a significantly larger patient base across the country<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/screenshot_2_4_2026_183821_-27611.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 pl-5 pr-5\"\/> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emcure Pharmaceuticals has announced the price revision of its weight management drug Poviztra\u00ae (semaglutide injection) across India. The reduced price would be starting at Rs 3,999\/- per month (4 weekly doses). The innovator Semaglutide is available in a once-weekly pen device in five strengths of 0.25 mg, 0.5 mg, 1.0 mg, 1.7 mg and a maintenance dose of 2.4 mg. It comes in a state-of-the-art pen device that provides the convenience of simple administration and precise dosing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the first Indian company to exclusively distribute and commercialise Poviztra\u00ae, a second brand of Novo Nordisk\u2019s semaglutide injection for obesity, Emcure aims to expand access and enable more patients to benefit from this proven therapy at the revised price.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The innovator biologic rDNA semaglutide molecule has been on the market for close to a decade. It is the most studied and used semaglutide globally with an equivalent of 49+ million patient years of exposure. It is backed by nearly 50 clinical trials in diverse clinical settings1 and has been taken by millions of patients worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emcure reduces price of weight management drug Poviztra by 55% April 02, 2026 | Thursday | News Price&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[20619,178745,102,6591,236,14094,56,54,55,12116],"class_list":{"0":"post-510699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-drug","9":"tag-emcure","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-obesity","13":"tag-pharma","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-weight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}