Watchdog warns of illegal weight loss medicines
Soaring demand for GLP-1 receptor agonists, commonly prescribed for diabetes and obesity, is driving a surge in the online sale of illegal medicines. The European Medicines Agency (EMA)… read more.
Soaring demand for GLP-1 receptor agonists, commonly prescribed for diabetes and obesity, is driving a surge in the online sale of illegal medicines. The European Medicines Agency (EMA)… read more.
The new class of anti-obesity drugs, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs), is proving remarkably effective at helping individuals lose weight. However, a new population-wide study being presented at… read more.
Researchers report that patients with psoriasis treated with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) have achieved a 78% reduced risk of death and a 44% reduced risk of major… read more.
Women taking popular weight-loss medications during their reproductive years may be unaware of associated risks to pregnancy and unborn babies, warn Flinders University researchers. A new study has… read more.
Less than half of England has access to tirzepatide (Mounjaro) through their GP, despite the NHS roll-out of the weight-loss jab officially starting over two months ago, an… read more.
Novo Nordisk presented data from the STEER real-world study of evidence gathered from actual patient experiences at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2025 in Madrid, Spain…. read more.
NICE (UK): Tirzepatide is recommended as an option for managing overweight and obesity, alongside a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity in adults, only if they have: i)… read more.
New research has found that the use of GLP-1 receptor agonists*, a class of medications commonly prescribed for patients with obesity and diabetes, reduces the environmental footprint of… read more.
Bariatric surgery is usually effective on its own for weight loss, but an increasing proportion of patients who undergo bariatric surgery start taking one of the new glucagon-like… read more.
Overweight patients waiting for operations could safely use a particular type of weight-loss treatment to reduce the risk of surgical complications linked to their obesity, a new study… read more.
Users of the NHS Active 10 app, designed to encourage people to become more active, immediately increased their amount of brisk and non-brisk walking upon using the app,… read more.
When given nutritionally matched diets, participants lost twice as much weight eating minimally processed foods compared to ultra-processed foods, suggesting that cutting down on processing could help to… read more.
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