Liraglutide was not originally developed as a weight-loss treatment. Like semaglutide (Ozempic), it originally treated type 2 diabetes. The class of drugs liraglutide and semaglutide belong to are ...

Ozempic (semaglutide) and Victoza (liraglutide) are prescription drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes and reduce the risk of cardiovascular problems. Both drugs come as an injection. Ozempic is not ...

New data shows that more patients with type 2 diabetes achieved an average blood sugar level below 7% after using Novo Nordisk’s Victoza (liraglutide) for the first time, at any given time point ...

Liraglutide is on the market as Victoza for diabetes and Saxenda for obesity. It has been largely superseded, however, by Novo Nordisk's semaglutide-based therapies, Ozempic for diabetes and ...

Victoza is another injectable GLP-1 medication that is similar to Ozempic. It’s approved to lower blood sugar levels in adults with type 2 diabetes. However, unlike Ozempic, Victoza is injected ...

Since its discovery in 1984 by Svetlana Mosjov, GLP-1 and its analogs (such as semaglutide, liraglutide, and dulaglutide) have rapidly become cornerstone treatments for type 2 diabetes mellitus ...