Starter doses of the obesity drug Wegovy will be temporarily held back in the U.S. to safeguard supplies, said drugmaker Novo Nordisk
An older Novo Nordisk drug, Ozempic—which has been around for more than half a decade as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes—was also prescribed for weight loss, leading toNovo Nordisk on Thursday reported surging demand for both drugs and said it expects capacity limitations at some manufacturing sites to result in “continued periodic supply constraints and related drug shortage notifications across a number of products and geographies.” The supply capacity is gradually being expanded, it said.
Overall sales rose 27% to 53.37 billion Danish krone, equivalent to $7.92 billion, versus the roughly 52.5 billion krone implied by recent company guidance. “Growth is driven by increasing demand for our GLP-1-based diabetes and obesity treatments, particularly in the U.S. where the prescription trend for Wegovy highlights the high unmet need for people living with obesity,” Chief Executive Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen said.
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