The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a generic version of the daily injectable GLP-1 medicine liraglutide ...
The drugs were first approved to treat type 2 diabetes – and that's what the FDA said daily injections of liraglutide could ...
Those include Ozempic and its sister drug approved ... just without the brand name on the label. A generic drug, like the liraglutide generic approved Monday, is a copy of a brand-name drug ...
Liraglutide, sold under the brand name Victoza for diabetes, is an earlier iteration in the same class of drug as semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic. The US Food and Drug Administration on ...
Neither drug is considered as effective as the brand-name weekly ... has just approved a generic form of a type 2 diabetes drug in the same class as Ozempic. It's too soon to tell, but it might ...
In a citizen petition posted by the FDA this week, Novo urged the regulator to restrict the ability of compounding pharmacies to produce Victoza, also known as liraglutide, following a proposal by the ...