Hims & Hers Health, Inc., which sells generic pills for men and women that treat everything from ED and anxiety to hair loss and acne,compounded versions of semaglutide, the active ingredient in the diabetes injectable Ozempic and its weight loss sister drug Wegovy, at a fraction of the cost of Novo Nordisk's expensive name-brand drugs.
"We’ve leveraged our size and scale to secure access to one of the highest-quality supplies of compounded GLP-1 injections available today," company CEO Andrew Dudum said in the statement. "We’re passing that access and value along to our customers, who deserve the highest standard of clinical safety and efficacy to meet their goals, and we're doing it in a safe, affordable way that others can’t deliver.
"We conducted extensive research for over a year into finding a quality supplier, putting rigorous standards in place for vetting, and we’re now partnering with a leading US manufacturer of generic and 503B compounded injectable medications, BPI Labs," the company's chief medical officer Pat Carroll told us in response to questions. "They are registered with the FDA as a 503B outsourcing facility, which is subject to state and federal oversight.