PAYING PRIVATELY
If you're not eligible on the NHS, you may want to go private, but be warned of the cost. Online, prices for Saxenda vary from £50 to £150 for one pen, depending on how many you buy. As with any medication, you need to shop at a reputable company.
Committed to losing weight in 2024? Then you may be looking desperately for something to help. I’m being asked more and more often in my consultation room, ‘What about that weight-loss jab, Doc?’ but it may not be the miracle cure you’re after.
With one in four UK adults now classed as ‘obese’, we’re heading for an avalanche of health consequences, such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease. I want to help my patients lose weight, but I won’t be reaching for my prescription pad just yet. For a start, NHS GPs can’t currently prescribe a ‘skinny jab’.
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NOT ANOTHER MEGA WEDDING!
Something is happening to me. When I see babies I no longer melt, coo or ask to hold them.
A little LIFE
Angela hadnt seen her friend for years surely they would have nothing in common now?
Adult-only ESCAPES
Searching for a relaxing break away from the stresses of family life? Look no further…
John and Lisa's EASY DINNERS
Enjoy speedy family meals from TV’s favourite cooking couple
Against ALL ODDS
Danielle Crooks brave boys were each born with a broken heart
Would you give your kidney to a stranger FOR £35K?
Aresearcher has suggested that a financial incentive could be the answer to the UK’s live organ donor shortage. We ask...
IT'S NOT JUST HARRY WHO IS FIGHTING THE KING OVER SECURITY
Another feud between heir and spare is bubbling away, with reports that the monarch has axed Prince Andrew’s private bodyguards.
'My tumours have grown'
Linda Nolan has given a heartbreaking cancer update, revealing that her tumours have ‘grown’ and her treatment has ‘stopped working’.
'I'm getting older and bigger, EVERYTHING CHANGES
Kelly Brook on why being fit and healthy is more important than dropping dress sizes
Even his dad WON'T TAKE HIS CALLS'
As the duke turns 40, his family seem to be more distant than ever