What the papers say – weekly digest (18/08/23)
Your weekly digest of the top healthcare stories, covering news published from 14/08/2023 – 18/08/2023. The Guardian Patients in Scotland and Wales could be offered treatment in English… read more.
Your weekly digest of the top healthcare stories, covering news published from 14/08/2023 – 18/08/2023. The Guardian Patients in Scotland and Wales could be offered treatment in English… read more.
On 27th June 2023 NHS England issued a Medicine Supply Notification (MSN/2023/061) concerning GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) used for management of type 2 diabetes. This action has… read more.
Deborah Evans is Superintendent Pharmacist and Clinic Director at Remedi Health, where she runs a weight management service, including the provision of semaglutide. In this series of short… read more.
People seeking semaglutide for weight management from a pharmacy-led service need to feel assured that the service is ethical and legal and has the best interests of the… read more.
Taking time to understand a patient’s weight loss goals and checking their medical history to ensure there are no underlying problems that may need onward referral are both… read more.
Online supply of semaglutide makes the medicine more accessible but may not provide the best support or guidance to enable people to get the best out of the… read more.
Wegovy and Ozempic both contain semaglutide but are authorised for different indications. They are also presented in slightly different concentrations and dose schedules, explains Deborah Evans, Superintendent Pharmacist… read more.
Deborah Evans is superintendent pharmacist and clinic director at Remedi Health, an independent pharmacy and healthcare clinic in Winchester. Remedi Health runs a weight management service and has… read more.
Too Few Primary Care Doctors Address Obesity With Their Patients, Highlighting Need for Weight Loss Tool After finding that few to no clinicians provided weight management care, researchers… read more.
A new substudy of the STEP TEENS trial presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2023, Dublin 17-20 May) shows that adolescents using semaglutide experienced significant… read more.
Adults at high cardiovascular risk and living with overweight or obesity [1] experience a higher number of cardiovascular events (such as heart attack and stroke), are at greater… read more.
Alex Miras is Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Ulster, UK and is an expert in obesity management and research. In 2021 a trial of semaglutide for… read more.
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