Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss medication Wegovy (semaglutide) was approved in Japan in March. While it skipped the May round of reimbursement listing, physicians eagerly await the arrival of what would be the first new obesity drug in three decades. Other companies…
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Novo Joins Hands with MSD in Oral Semaglutide Promotion
Novo Nordisk Pharma and MSD said on December 9 that they have entered into a sales collaboration pact to copromote the Danish diabetes powerhouse’s oral GLP-1 agent semaglutide in Japan.In Japan, once-daily oral semaglutide was filed in July this year…
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