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UPDATE: FDA's Makary pledges crackdown on mass marketing of 'illegal copycat drugs' in wake of Hims' Wegovy pill push

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“FDA will take swift action against companies mass-marketing illegal copycat drugs, claiming they are similar to FDA-approved products,” FDA commissioner Marty Makary, M.D., said in a Feb. 5 post on X. The comments mark a clear and sharp rebuttal to Hims’ announcement earlier in the day that it had launched a compounded version of Novo Nordisk’s new Wegovy pill for obesity, just weeks after Novo's own launch.

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