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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Summer Woolley

Pancreatitis: The life-threatening reaction linked to weight loss injections

The medicines regulator is investigating after hundreds of people have reported problems with their pancreas linked to taking weight loss and diabetes jabs.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Genomics England have launched the Yellow Card Biobank project to examine whether cases of pancreatitis linked to GLP-1 drugs may be influenced by people's genetic makeup.

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