It is injected just under the skin by way of a pen injector. In 2014, Saxenda became the first GLP-1 agonist approved for weight loss in people without diabetes. It’s meant to be used along with ...

NICE tuned down the GLP-1 agonist earlier this year, but changed its stance after Novo Nordisk offered a confidential discount to the NHS. Saxenda – which comes as prefilled self-injection pen ...

Hannah's doctor prescribed Saxenda - part of a group of drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists - and she began the daily injections. Drugs like Ozempic, Mounjaro and Saxenda have swept the globe ...

liraglutide (Saxenda), didn’t work as well as the others, researchers found after reviewing data from dozens of clinical trials. The review also found that a GLP-1 drug still in development ...