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October 17, 2024 According to State Health, the telehealth GLP-1 boom wouldn’t be possible without clinicians willing to write prescriptions for those hundreds of thousands of patients. Companies are rarely transparent — with patients or the public — about the medical groups behind the screens. But a STAT examination found that just a handful of networks of […]
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Oct. 8, 2024 WW announced the addition of compounded semaglutide into its offering, broadening eligible members’ access to clinical weight management interventions. The new offering, starting at $129, enhances the Company’s holistic weight management program, which includes behavioral and clinical solutions with support from board-certified clinicians, registered dietitians, and the global Weight Watchers community. This
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Sept. 27, 2024 WeightWatchers Board member Tara Comonte has been appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Comonte succeeds Sima Sistani, who departs from her role as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board, effective today. “During her tenure, Ms. Sistani led the Company’s transformation to a modern digital health organization and extended
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Sept. 25, 2024 Lindora Clinics, a regional medical weight loss chain based in California, has recently begun franchising. As such, it has filed a 2024 FDD (Franchise Disclosure Document) that describes the franchise, its investment costs, etc. Lindora is a long-established company in the weight loss market, with a variety of weight loss programs, both
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Sept. 24, 2024 Marketdata LLC, DietBusinessWatch.com’s parent), estimates that the top competitors in the U.S. weight loss market lost at least $971 million in revenues last year, due to the juggernaut of GLP-1 medications. This is a huge transfer of sales from commercial and retail weight loss programs and product segments to medical programs. Here’s
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Sept. 19, 2024 Lindora Clinics, a long-time competitor in the medical weight loss market, has begun selling franchises. The firm has 31 sites, focused on the California market, but plans to expand nationally via franchising. Lindora franchisees’ gross revenue can vary, but the data provided in the brand’s 2024 FDD offers insight into potential earnings,
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Sept. 12, 2024 Noom is the latest weight loss company to start prescribing compounded versions of the obesity medication semaglutide. This follows similar moves by Hims, Ro, and other telehealth companies capitalizing on shortages of brand-name obesity drugs. Noom will sell the compounded GLP-1 drug starting at $149 a month, it says. The company, which
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August 14, 2024 Nearly half of online pharmacies that sell semaglutide — the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy — are doing so illegally, posing safety risks for consumers, according to a study published Aug. 2 in JAMA Network Open. Of the 317 online pharmacies included in the study, researchers found 42.27% were operating illegally, meaning
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August 13, 2024 As reported by Fiercehealthcare.com today in an article… The genetic testing company 23andMe sees an opportunity to get in on the weight loss boom. The company, through its Lemonaid Health business, plans to launch a GLP-1 weight loss telehealth membership by the end of the month, it announced last week along with
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August 8, 2024 A Financial Times article reported that… “Eli Lilly chief executive David Ricks said the better than expected sales in its most recent quarter were driven by the GLP-1 medicines as the drugmaker “advanced our manufacturing expansion agenda” to meet the huge demand for the medicines. Increased pricing power for Mounjaro also boosted
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