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More than two in five US adults are now classified as obese, and rates are rising across the rest of the world too. It is a chronic disease associated with a costly catalogue of long-term ill health,

Vaccines prevent the spread of disease and protect people from serious illnesses. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated the last week of April as “world immunisation week”, during which i

There was once a time when we were all searching for the next fad diet that promised to help us shed those extra pounds. Now, medical advancements, mindsets and search terms are changing and, instead,

One in eight people in the US have tried one of the new weight-loss drugs, such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro, says Emily Anthes in The New York Times. “Fluffy and Fido could be next.” San Francisco

Celebrities and the elite have flocked to private healthcare companies to get their hands on a drug which promises thinness. People are spending thousands on weight-loss jabs, even with no medical nee