While the Philadelphia Eagles shouted at the victory against the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl Lix, the eyes of the pharmaceutical industry were broadcast on an advertisement that was broadcast by TeleHealth Company and that again arose the debate about the legitimacy of composite weight loss drugs.
Controverse has called the commercial, 'sick of the system', surrounded in the run -up to the largest sporting event in America. The bodies and politicians of the drug industry labeled the advertisement that was misleading, while pharmacy compounds experts supported him and her message.
The advertisement of 60 seconds describes obesity in America, which calls it the deadliest epidemic of the country. Him and hers say that the weight loss system has been broken, and quotes that the profit in the pharmaceutical industry is more important than the health of the patient. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptoragonist (GLP-1RA) injection pens, which resemble the Semaglutide products from Novo Nordisk, Wegovy and Ozempic, are in the advertisement.
“The system was not built to help us, it was built to hold us sick and stuck,” says the narrator, while Childish Gambinos plays in the background.
Live reactions to the advertisement that was broadcast during the Super Bowl mainly picked up the “hypocritical” tone of the advertisement. A user on X stated that it was “only pharmaceutical regurgitation”, with a different questions why “they wrap up the weight loss industry and then advertise for a pill with weight loss?”
Him and her offers composite semaglutide, a copycat version of weight loss drug Wegovy that contains semaglutide as his active ingredient. The TeleHealth company criticizes the $ 160 billion weight loss industry, which refers to unnecessarily high prices of GLP-1ra drugs. He and her sell their semaglutide copycat for less than $ 200 a month, while Wegovy costs around $ 1,000 a month without insurance.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved medicines such as Wegovy can be exacerbated under certain disorders, such as whether the original approved medicine is in a shortage and is not available. However, verbes versions are not immediately regulated by the FDA and their safety is often questioned.
Two American senators, Democrat Dick Durbin and Republican Roger Marshall, wrote a letter to the FDA prior to the Super Bowl that expressed concern about the advertisement because it is “the risk of misleading patients by omitting information or side operation information when promoting A specific type of weight loss medication ”.
The partnership for SAFE Medicines (PMA) – a trade organization that tackles issues such as counterfeit medicines and online medicine sellers – said it was 'deeply disturbed' by the advertisement.
