Britain’s anti-obesity jab plan is the stuff of sci-fi
Drastic action is considered essential, but this is part of a wider strategy that represents a looming calamity for Stormont
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Goodbye BMI, hello BRI: Is roundness a better measure of health than mass?
BMI is criticised for treating fat and muscle mass the same. Does a newer measure solve the problem?
Lilly turns to Ireland to produce two of the hottest therapy areas in medicine
Company is investing $2.8bn in two Irish plants to produce its in-demand weight loss drugs and a new Alzheimer’s therapy
As a cardiologist, here is what I tell my patients about Ozempic
Using such medications to lose excess fat that risks your health is no more of a moral failing than using a blood pressure medication to lower high blood pressure that increases your risk of stroke
‘I see my belly, and my belly sees me. Yes, my diet has really gone belly up’
Enda Sheppard: I resemble more and more a front-loading camel, stocking up for the long winter ahead. Except it’s nowhere near winter
Plain packaging worked to reduce smoking. Unhealthy food should be next
Removing branding from cigarette boxes has reduced smoking among young people. We must now do the same with unhealthy food and drinks as childhood obesity can trigger disease in later life
Weight loss drug semaglutide could reduce heart attack risk by 20%, study finds
Active ingredient in brands including Wegovy and Ozempic also found to have brought about cardiovascular benefits for participants in research
Hot school meals: A close look at the ingredients list is not pretty. This is industrial food
While aimed at child health and rolled out impressively fast, school food merits better use of public money by the Government
Ozempic changed the lives of obesity patients. And then we had to stop prescribing it
Patients are being denied access to a potentially life-saving obesity treatment
Is corporate PR duping us and derailing solutions to global warming and chronic diseases?
‘We need to go back to basics to organise ourselves in groups, to have clear political objectives and to demand change’
Living with obesity: ‘You would lose three stone in two weeks, but then in four weeks you would put 3½ back on’
Having felt a sense of shame and failure for years, bariatric surgery proved life-changing for electrical contractor Joe Meade
‘Tide is turning more rapidly than ever in terms of obesity management’
Disadvantaged groups, however, continue to be disproportionately affected by an overall rise obesity over the past 30-plus years
Ozempic has big potential, but caution is necessary
For all the popular clamour for the new medication it is not without side effects
Man’s death after weight-loss surgery in Turkey leaves family with unanswered questions
‘He wouldn’t want to die, nobody wants to,’ says wife of Cristian Nascimento (26) who died in Cavan 21 days after returning from Istanbul clinic
Healthy plant-based diet can eliminate many type 2 diabetes cases, study finds
Diet high in fruit, vegetables and wholegrains can reduce risk by 24%, even for those with added risk factors
Pfizer outlook gloomy after annus horribilis in 2023
Pharmaceutical giant suffers a post-Covid-19 hangover as demand for pandemic vaccines and medicines falls sharply
Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk buys Irish drug manufacturing plant in €85m deal
Danish weight loss and diabetes specialist is looking to develop a tablet form of its blockbuster obesity treatments
Demand for weight loss drug more than 45 times higher than expected
New obesity medicines have potential to use up entire State drugs budget, conference hears
The Truth About the ‘Skinny’ Jab: Are weight-loss injections a magic wand or potential health disaster?
Television: Presenter Anna Richardson explores how drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy work and the potential side effects
Call for creation of register logging patients having weight-loss surgery abroad
Medics detail complications experienced by four patients who travelled for surgeries in article
Novo Nordisk says obesity pill leads to 15% weight loss
Danish drugmaker pushing for US and EU approval but has struggled to meet demand for its Ozempic and Wegovy drugs
‘My 10-year-old daughter says she is fat and needs to go on a diet’
Ask the Expert: ‘Her closest friend is quite skinny so I wonder if she is comparing herself to this girl’
Ozempic: We may be on the brink of solving a decades-old crisis with a single medicine
It is easy to assume the world is getting progressively worse. And then along comes a huge leap forward in science or medicine to challenge the misery
Warning doctors not to prescribe Ozempic for weight loss is morally problematic
We have to stop framing the therapeutic solution for obesity in terms of effort, personality and motivation. Treatment of obesity requires the modification of a disease process
Obesity patients ‘scolded’ and ‘sniggered at’ when trying to get medication Ozempic
New guidance for doctors and pharmacists stresses drug is indicated only for the treatment of diabetes
Obesity among adolescents almost halves after treatment with weight-loss drug
Almost three-quarters of young people given semaglutide moved down at least one weight category, study finds
Irish food system ‘fuelling premature death and disability’ due to diet-related diseases – report
Lack of policies cause ‘ultra-processed foods and excessive red and processed meat’ to dominate
We need to talk about excess body fat
Conversations must be held ‘before obesity complications set in’
‘The food was controlling me, rather than me controlling the food’
Gerry Barrett got to grips with his food issues after attending the public weight management service in St Columcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown
Pet obesity: Owners urged to practise weight management for their cats and dogs as cases rise
Issue has escalated since Covid-19 when people were at home and taking in their first pet, says vet
Obesity drug firm paid health staff €345,000 over three years
Novo Nordisk’s UK affiliate has been suspended from industry body there for marketing breaches
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