Weight loss jabs like Ozempic now linked to TEN deaths, the UK's drug watchdog confirms

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Weight loss jabs like Ozempic now linked to TEN deaths, the UK's drug watchdog confirms
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There have also been 7,228 reports of nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea associated with the likes of Wegovy and Ozempic.

READ MORE:The medicines watchdog has received reports of ten deaths linked to the use of weight loss jabs, it has revealed.

Underlying or concurrent illnesses and other medicines the patients may have been taken at the time of their death may be responsible and such events can also be coincidental, it told trade magazine Chemist and Druggist. Health secretary Wes Streeting has said the injections are not 'cosmetic' treatments and should only be used by obese people who have failed to shift weight through diet

A doctor warned in June that 'at some point, we're going to have a death' after a 'young girl' was rushed to A&E for treatment with life-threatening symptoms.Wegovy is licensed for use as a weight loss jab and Ozempic, which contains the same drug at a different dose, is used in the treatment of diabetes, although some people have been using it as a fat buster.

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