{"id":10317,"date":"2026-02-07T23:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/hims-wont-sell-compounded-obesity-pill-novo\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:02:27","slug":"hims-wont-sell-compounded-obesity-pill-novo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/hims-wont-sell-compounded-obesity-pill-novo\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Hims &amp; Hers will stop selling compounded version of Novo\u2019s obesity pill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>STAT+: Hims &#038; Hers will stop selling compounded version of Novo\u2019s obesity pill<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hims &amp; Hers said Saturday it will stop selling what it claims to be a cheaper, compounded version of Novo Nordisk\u2019s obesity pill on its telehealth platform, after health officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2026\/02\/06\/fda-take-action-against-hims-telehealth-wegovy-compounding\/\">called for an investigation<\/a> of the company for potentially violating federal law.<\/p>\n<p>Hims launched the compounded drug earlier this week at $49 month. That prompted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2026\/02\/05\/novo-weight-obesity-wegovy-hims-compounding-telehealth\/\">immediate backlash<\/a> from Novo, which had launched the pill, the oral version of its injectable Wegovy treatment, last month at $149 to $299 a month. The mass production of copies of a brand-name drug is typically only allowed when the drug is in shortage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, the Food and Drug Administration said it would take \u201cdecisive steps\u201d to thwart companies such as Hims that are mass marketing unapproved, compounded versions of GLP-1 drugs. Then on Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services asked the Department of Justice to investigate Hims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/07\/hims-wont-sell-compounded-obesity-pill-novo\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Elaine Chen<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/07\/hims-wont-sell-compounded-obesity-pill-novo\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: Hims &#038; Hers will stop selling compounded version of Novo\u2019s obesity pill Hims &amp; Hers said Saturday it will stop selling what it claims to be a cheaper, compounded version of Novo Nordisk\u2019s obesity pill on its telehealth platform, after health officials called for an investigation of the company for potentially violating federal law. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428,2282,2155,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-obesity","category-pharmaceuticals","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}