Federal officials are targeting the blockbuster drugs as part of their ongoing initiative to lower drug costs.

The Biden administration said Medicare will negotiate discounts with drug companies on 15 drugs prescribed to treat cancer, ...

People who stayed on a 7.2 milligram weekly dose of semaglutide lost around 20% of their body weight over 72 weeks.

Medicare will soon start paying lower prices for Novo Nordisk’s weight- loss drug Wegovy and its Type 2 diabetes treatment ...

The Biden administration announced Friday that Ozempic, Wegovy and 13 additional drugs will now be covered under Medicare ...

Novo sells semaglutide as Ozempic and Rybelsus for diabetes and as Wegovy for obesity. In price talks, CMS will treat the different forms as a single product.

And you're more likely to get insurance to cover Ozempic than Wegovy. Ozempic and Wegovy have the same active ingredient, semaglutide. Wegovy has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA ...

Novo Nordisk's blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic and weight-loss treatment Wegovy are among the 15 drugs targeted for ...

Naturally, more work is needed. Although GLS -1 agonists have been used in diabetes for 20 years, some of the newer findings ...

Verdiva looks to challenge the dominance of Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, the makers of the two most popular weight loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. The company promises to offer less invasive ...

The drug was semaglutide ... which have so far limited coverage of Ozempic to people with diabetes. They have declined to cover Wegovy because it’s marketed as a weight-management drug.

The federal government approved Wegovy, basically Ozempic in a different ... DSS issued a bulletin last month saying it won't cover Ozempic other than for Type 2 diabetes, Lesser said.