Next Gen Weight Loss Jab On NHS

Mounjaro boost for at-risk obese

- MARTIN BAGOT

A NEW more powerful appetitesuppressing jab has been approved for weight loss on the NHS.

In trials Mounjaro helped obese people lose a fifth of their weight and the weekly injection is being offered on the NHS to people dangerously obese.

However, the jab comes with side effects such as nausea and causes a loss of muscle mass, while experts suspect it will be subject to NHS rationing.

Prof Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, obesity expert at Cambridge University, said: "We are clearly in a new era of obesity management where, for the first time, we can have access to medicines which are effective and, though not without some side effects, largely safe.