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Novo Nordisk reported over ‘national pharmacy’ weight-loss drug sponsorships

 
• By Kate Bowie

Novo Nordisk induced multiple “large” pharmacy chains to prescribe one of its weight loss drugs by providing “free of charge” sharps bins, needles and injection-pen travel wallets, the prescription medicine self-regulatory body has found.  

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Novo Nordisk asked for reports on pharmacy website traffic, “success rates" and numbers of new patients
Kate Bowie

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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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