Hundreds of Britons are being rushed to hospital with serious reactions to weight-loss drugs, with cases surging by 46 per cent in just one month, new figures reveal. Nearly 400 people have required hospital treatment since the rollout of medications such as Wegovy,

GLP-1 drugs used for weight loss involve all kinds of side effects—good and not-so-good—that may or may not strike the average user. (Reminder that there are many of these meds now. GLP-1s currently used for weight loss—although not all are expressly approved for this purpose—include Ozempic and Wegovy (semaglutide),

It's not just celebrities and TikTok creators jumping on the weight loss drug hype - more than 500,000 people in the UK are now taking either Mounjaro or Wegovy, with experts predicting a nationwide fall in obesity rates.