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Obesity

January 2025

  • A woman holds an Ozempic auto-injector.

    Why isn’t Ozempic on Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for weight loss? And should it be?

  • A dosage of Wegovy

    Increase regulation of online sale of weight-loss jabs, pharmacists say

  • Various coloured ribbons shaped like question marks – representing different types of early-onset cancer

    Ultra-processed food? Forever chemicals? Declining birth rates? What’s behind rising cancer in the under-50s?

  • Woman grocery shopping for wines in a supermarket.

    ‘Skinny jabs’ are turning slimmers teetotal – and drinks companies are feeling the loss

  • Weight-loss jabs linked to reduced risk of 42 conditions including dementia

  • After call to overhaul diagnosis of obesity, how can you tell if your weight is a problem?

  • Calorie labels encourage people to eat less by only a single crisp, study says

  • Reframing obesity may end the diagnosis debate, but the health challenges remain

  • Call to overhaul obesity diagnoses amid fears of over-reliance on BMI

  • Tell us: has weight-loss medication affected the way you drink alcohol?

  • Bird flu, brain rot and booze – the health issues you’ll be hearing more about in 2025

    Devi Sridhar

December 2024

  • Dosing pens for anti-obesity medication

    NHS delays may drive patients to buy unsafe weight-loss drugs, says top GP

  • Packages of weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy

    One in five Britons would use weight-loss drug if free on NHS, poll reveals

  • Runners in Christmas outfits take part in an early morning Christmas day 5km park run

    People urged to do at least 150 minutes of aerobic exercise a week to lose weight

  • Ads for Wegovy (semaglutide) and other weight-loss injections outside Penn Station in New York.

    ‘Wild west’: experts concerned by illegal promotion of weight-loss jabs in UK

  • ‘It’s absolutely open to abuse’: web awash with weight-loss drug offers

  • Shrinking waistlines and growing profits: the weight-loss drug boom

  • Science Weekly
    ‘Soft and calorie dense’: Chris van Tulleken on how ultra-processed foods keep us hooked – podcast

  • Being overweight now top risk to Australians’ health as smoking rates decline, data shows

  • Small island nations face climate-induced ‘catastrophe’, warn experts

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