WeightWatchers CEO suddenly quits after push to embrace weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy
Sima Sistani, who took up the CEO post at WW International two-and-a-half years ago, is out, according to the company.
Weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are tremendously popular and effective. Patients should also be careful in using them
Semaglutide, the underlying drug marketed as Ozempic and Wegovy, works by mimicking a hormone that triggers the body to feel full. When the drug interacts with a receptor in the stomach, patients feel full sooner and for a longer period of time after eating. The drug does not cause weight loss directly – instead, it makes you want to eat less.
Ozempic and Wegovy drugmaker CEO defends high costs of drugs
Novo Nordisk chief executive Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen faced questioning on Capitol Hill over the health care costs of the company’s weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. NBC News’ Christine Romans reports on how Jørgensen claimed the high prices were due to complications of the U.
WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani out in abrupt exit, embraced weight loss drugs
WeightWatchers announced Friday that CEO Sima Sistani is no longer at the company, and independent board member Tara Comonte has stepped in to serve as interim CEO.
WeightWatchers' CEO embraced Ozempic. Now she's out of the company.
Sima Sistani helped push the company into the GLP-1 drug space with the $106 million acquisition of Sequence.
WeightWatchers is struggling in the weight loss drug era — and now the CEO is out
International said Friday that CEO Sima Sistani is stepping down immediately. She will be replaced by Tara Comonte, a board member and the former CEO of Shake Shack (SHAK), who was appointed as interim chief executive effective immediately.
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