Wegovy in Canada: Price, Legality
Wegovy canada: the realistic routes to a prescription and a pharmacy, and how they compare.
- Active ingredient
- semaglutide
- Manufacturer
- Novo Nordisk
- How it is taken
- Weekly injection or daily pill
- FDA-approved for
- Weight loss, Heart risk, MASH liver disease
Wegovy, in brief
Its half-life is about 1 week. After 7 d, half is gone. By five half-lives (35 d), about 3% remains.
In STEP 1 over 68 weeks, 14.9% of body weight was lost, compared with 2.4% on placebo.
In US dollars, the monthly price points cover both the list price and the self-pay offers. Every figure comes from the maker's price page.
Sources: FDA label (DailyMed), healthsystemtracker.org, prnewswire.com 1 2.