A vision-threatening eye condition may be linked to Ozempic. Meanwhile, Nearly 80% of doctors are using telemedicine weekly, a new Doximity report finds.

With U.S. headquarters in Plainsboro, Novo Nordisk told NJBIZ, "NAION is a very rare eye disease, and it is not an adverse drug reaction for the marketed formulations of semaglutide (Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy) as per the approved labels.

The European Union's drug regulator said it would assess two new Danish studies that link Novo Nordisk's popular diabetes drug Ozempic to a rare eye disease. The studies published earlier this week had found Ozempic significantly increases the risk of type 2 diabetes patients developing NAION (non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy),