WeightWatchers Moves Into the Ozempic Market With Telehealth Deal

Weight-management company is buying Sequence, which offers telehealth visits with doctors

WW, known for food-tracking and lifestyle changes, is moving to also offer customers a medical weight-loss approach.Photo: Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock

WW International Inc., known as WeightWatchers, is buying digital health company Sequence, marking the diet company’s move into the hot market for diabetes and obesity drugs including Ozempic and Wegovy.

Sequence is a subscription service that offers telehealth visits with doctors who can prescribe the drugs. WeightWatchers, which has long promised to help customers lose weight through food-tracking and lifestyle changes, is moving to also offer customers a medical weight-loss approach. 

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