Semaglutide is the active ingredient in the weight loss medication Wegovy and the diabetes drugs Ozempic and Rybelsus, which ...

Wegovy 0.25 mg dose pen (light green label) The 0.25 mg dose Wegovy pen has light green coloring on its label. Each pen contains 0.25 mg of semaglutide in 0.5 mL of liquid. The NDC on the carton ...

There are two FDA-approved semaglutide drugs available by prescription, Ozempic and Wegovy, but none for the “4mg Semaglutide Pen” and “8mg Semaglutide Pen” sold on Ozempen.com, the FDA said.

Brazilian pharmaceutical company EMS announced the release of Olire and Lirux injector pens for obesity and type 2 diabetes, ...

Semaglutide falls into a class of medications known as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists. The GLP-1 hormone, released in the gastrointestinal tract in response to eating, prompts ...

The researchers paid between $113 and $360 for a single dose of the products they ordered online. The retail price for a comparable dose (one 0.25-milligram pen of Wegovy) is about $325, and the ...

While the FDA-approved medications are administered via either an oral tablet or pre-filled pens, compounded versions of semaglutide have patients draw the dose themselves from vials, which can ...

Compounded semaglutide products may differ from approved products in ways that contribute to potential errors — for example, in multidose vials and prefilled syringes.