Brazil Approves First Generic Semaglutide Pen
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Anvisa is the health agency of Brazil. It checks medicines and food.
Anvisa has approved a new medicine pen. The pen is for weight loss.
The pen has a drug called semaglutide. This drug helps people lose weight.
This is the first generic semaglutide pen in Brazil. A generic medicine is a copy of a famous medicine.
The copy works like the first medicine. But it can cost less money.
Many people in Brazil want to buy weight-loss medicine. The prices are often very high.
This new pen may help more people buy the medicine. It may also help doctors give it to more patients.
Anvisa said the pen is safe. It also said the pen works well.
This is important news for health in Brazil.
Vocabulary15 words
- Anvisa
- the group that checks medicines in Brazil
- approve
- to say something is good and allowed
- pen
- a small tool used to give medicine under the skin
- semaglutide
- a drug that helps people lose weight
- generic
- a cheaper copy of a famous medicine
- weight loss
- losing extra body weight
- medicine
- something you take to feel better or stay healthy
- safe
- not dangerous
- patient
- a person who needs medical care
- drug
- a substance used as medicine
- health agency
- a group that watches over health and medicine
- price
- how much something costs
- copy
- something made to be the same as another thing
- doctor
- a person who helps sick people
- country
- a nation, like Brazil
Quiz
Answer key
1. The first generic semaglutide pen 2. Weight loss 3. A copy of a famous medicine, often cheaper
Fill-in-the-blank listening
Play the audio again and fill in the missing words as you listen.
Anvisa is the health _____ of Brazil.
Anvisa has approved a new medicine _____.
The pen has a drug called _____.
This is the first _____ semaglutide pen in Brazil.
A generic medicine is a _____ of a famous medicine.
The copy works like the first medicine, but it can cost less _____.
Many people in Brazil want to buy weight-loss _____.
This new pen may help more people buy the _____.
Anvisa said the pen is _____.
This is important news for _____ in Brazil.