Health Secretary Wes Streeting has dismissed suggestions that plans to provide weight loss jabs to unemployed people with obesity are “dystopian.”. The UK government is launching a five-year trial with pharmaceutical giant Lilly to test if the weight-loss drug Mounjaro can help get more people back to work and ease the strain on the NHS … Read more
Getty The government has suggested weight-loss drugs could boost the economy by helping obese people in England get back to work. But NHS experts have warned treatment services are already overstretched trying to deal with unprecedented demand from patients wanting these drugs. How do Wegovy and Mounjaro work and how successful are they? There are … Read more
Unemployed people living with obesity could be given new weight loss jabs to help them get back into work, the health secretary has said. Wes Streeting suggested the latest generation of medicines including Ozempic and Mounjaro could be “lifechanging” for individuals and would ease pressure on the NHS. “Our widening waistbands are also placing significant … Read more
Michelle Sword told the BBC she was “heartbroken” that she had “done something so stupid” A mother of two who nearly died after taking a fraudulent weight loss injection is urging others to be careful about what they buy online. Michelle Sword, 46, from Carterton, Oxfordshire, ordered the slimming drug from an online beauty company … Read more
FAMILY HANDOUT Dr Alicia Pylpyczuk worked as an emergency doctor in Manchester but took her own life in February 2020 after battling depression triggered by alopecia Earlier this year a new drug to treat severe alopecia – an autoimmune condition that causes hair loss – was given the green light for NHS use. Some are … Read more
A drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity could also slow down the process of ageing, researchers believe. Semaglutide, better known as Ozempic, “has far-reaching benefits beyond what we initially imagined,” Prof Harlan Krumholz, from the Yale School of Medicine, said following the publication of several new studies. They found that the drug … Read more
Pharmacists have warned people not to buy fake weight-loss jabs online as a shortage of Ozempic is expected to stretch into next year. The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) suggested there could be a possible “explosion in the unlicensed sale of medication online” as a result. Weight-loss injections have been popularised with celebrity endorsements and before … Read more
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Getty Images Hello there election enthusiasts! I love the idea of a full night of election drama – sitting up in front of the television, the BBC News live page updating on my laptop, slowly converting a mountain of snacks into a wasteland of empty wrappers and mainlining unseemly quantities of tea. But we’re fighting … Read more
