West Lothian will join a region wide pilot scheme offering weight loss jabs free of charge to patients. Weight loss injections including Mounjaro and Wegovy have become very popular but are expensive ...

Against this backdrop, the W8Buddy study, a major real-world evaluation of a digitally delivered specialist weight management pathway, has officially opened its first site for patient recruitment and ...

Fewer than one in 30 eligible patients had access to publicly funded weight management programs in England over the past decade, according to an analysis of nearly two million health records. Research ...

A new task group is to be set up to assess how weight-loss drugs will be made available on the NHS in Wales. It will examine how tirzepatide - also known as Mounjaro - and future drugs can be safely ...

Obesity remains one of the most pressing and preventable health challenges of our time. The UK is one of a number of countries undoubtedly struggling with it. It affects nearly every organ system in ...

About four million people in the UK are thought to be at "tier three" in terms of their obesity. Get to tier 4 and the NHS starts to look at surgical options to reduce your weight. There are ...

Parents attending an adult weight management program, who were worried about their child's weight, would accept support and signposting to services for their child if it was offered. The study, funded ...

With weight-loss drugs no longer a niche medicine, Dr David Turner argues that the NHS’s reluctance to fund them more widely risks costing far more in the long run I have something in common with the ...