GPs could be at medico-legal risk if they ignore requests from online pharmacies for patient information for prescribing ...

Wegovy: sales of weight loss injection more than double - The company said more than 45 million people were now ‘benefitting ...

More prescriptions were handed out for semaglutide – a drug used to treat diabetes – in Northumberland last year, figures ...

The clampdown comes after several reports of people entering a false weight online to meet the criteria for the injections ...

Online pharmacies in England, Wales, and Scotland will have to carry out stricter checks on people who are buying weight loss drugs, under new regulatory guidance. Pharmacists will no longer be able ...

Amid growing concern of the overuse and misuse of obesity drugs, the UK’s pharmacies regulator rolled out stricter guidelines ...

Around half a million Britons are now thought to be using the medication, which can help them lose up to 20 per cent of their ...

Online pharmacies will need a proper consultation, not just a patient's questionnaire, to prescribe jabs such as Mounjaro ...

Rachelle Abbott joins London GP Dr Sonia Adesara, who explains the 'wild west' culture of online weight-loss jab prescriptions. Plus Louise Edwards, chief strategy officer & deputy registrar at the ...

Pharmacists must verify a person’s body mass index (BMI) via a video consultation, in person, or through accessing GP or ...

Those too slim to be eligible for injections can no longer get prescription without seeing a doctor under new guidance ...

Weight-loss drugs have also now been added to the list of “high-risk” medicines requiring extra safeguards. Any decision not ...