Novo Nordisk To 'Double Obesity Drug Sales by 2025'

Danish Group Says Year Off To ‘Good Start’

Novo Nordisk at its Q1 update lifted full-year guidance and voiced confidence it can double sales of innovative treatments for obesity by 2025.

Group Plans Phase IIIa Oral Semaglutide Obesity Trial Dosed At 50mg • Source: Alamy

Novo Nordisk A/S has underscored its growing commitment to developing novel treatments against obesity by promising to double sales drugs for the condition by 2025, and despite a sluggish start on the diabetes market, confirmed it would start a Phase IIIa trial in the second half evaluating oral semaglutide (Rybelsus) as an obesity treatment.

The company’s target for doubled obesity sales, based on those reported in 2019, will be helped by last month’s approval...

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