“Among adults, 5.4% of all prescriptions in September 2024 were for GLP-1s,” Rodriguez says. That is up from 3.5% a year earlier, in 2023, and 1% at the start of 2021.
The new drug, sold under the name Victoza and made by Hikma Pharmaceuticals ... brand-name weekly injections sold for diabetes and weight loss as Ozempic and Wegovy by Novo Nordisk and Mounjaro ...
Apart from Victoza, which was approved for Type 2 diabetes in 2010, liraglutide also underpins Novo’s older weight loss drug Saxenda and its insulin-degludec-based diabetes combination therapy ...