Health

I Bought ‘GLP-3’

You’re not supposed to be able to buy the world’s most powerful weight-loss drug, but some people have found a way.

Why my mum’s scotch eggs are my Twixmas essential

There’s always one non-negotiable snack in Jimi Famurewa’s fridge at this time of year: a spicy, homemade scotch egg. How did it become a family favourite?

Novo Nordisk stock surges on hopes Wegovy pill approval will deliver 'redemption' for investors

The FDA on Monday approved the first-ever GLP-1 pill for weight loss from the Danish pharmaceutical giant.

Death Comes For New York State

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A Grim Measles Milestone

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Forecasters say 2025 ‘more likely than not’ to be UK’s hottest year on record

Met Office says temperatures are tracking ahead of 2022 after year of heatwaves and drought, though late cold spell could yet intervene

My weirdest Christmas: I spent three hours in a car with a screaming baby

Her decibel level was almost operatic. But the sound of my first granddaughter wailing like an ambulance was the most beautiful I had ever heard

FDA approves first weight-loss pill

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first-ever weight-loss pill on Monday, a move that is set to greatly expand the industry.

FDA approves Wegovy pill for weight loss, the first daily oral medication of its kind

Regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity.

Pink platypus spotted in Gippsland far from a monochrome monotreme

Biologist says specimen filmed by a Victorian fisher is ‘unusual’, but not a rare albino as some had wondered

IVF treatments for same-sex couples to be covered by Aetna in national settlement

Like many young girls, Mara Berton and June Higginbotham both knew from an early age they wanted families and to become mothers. But as lesbians, they were excluded from accessing the same fertility treatment insurance benefits offered to heterosexual peers.

Barry Manilow to undergo surgery for lung cancer

The 82-year-old singer says the disease is in its early stages and he plans to be back on stage in February