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Are weight loss injections the solution to the obesity crisis?

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A quarter of adults in England now classed as having obesity. Pharmacy is here in the UK to begin selling a controversial weight loss jab. It's called wagovi or semag lutide and it will be available with a prescription. Some see the jabs as a potential game changer in the fight against the disease that cost the NHS £6 billion a year.

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