{"id":17055,"date":"2025-12-23T08:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fda-approves-oral-version-of-wegovy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T08:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:20:27","slug":"fda-approves-oral-version-of-wegovy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fda-approves-oral-version-of-wegovy\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves oral version of Wegovy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Novo Nordisk&rsquo;s oral version of the Wegovy weight loss pill, the first such pill approved for use.&nbsp; Novo Nordisk said in a Tuesday release that the GLP-1 pill is intended for once-daily use to &ldquo;reduce excess body weight and maintain weight reduction long-term and to reduce the&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5660548-fda-approves-wegovy-weight-loss\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Novo Nordisk&rsquo;s oral version of the Wegovy weight loss pill, the first such pill approved for use.&nbsp; Novo Nordisk said in a Tuesday release that the GLP-1 pill is intended for once-daily use to &ldquo;reduce excess body weight and maintain weight reduction long-term and to reduce the&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}