{"id":75690,"date":"2025-12-20T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/20\/rindia-doctors-sound-alarm-over-boom-in-availability-of-weight-loss-jabs"},"modified":"2025-12-20T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:00:22","slug":"indias-doctors-sound-alarm-over-boom-in-availability-of-weight-loss-jabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75690","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s doctors sound alarm over boom in availability of weight loss jabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country is facing epidemic of diabetes and obesity, but experts say widespread and unregulated use of weight loss drugs could put patients at risk<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s leading doctors have warned of the dangers of an unregulated boom in weight loss injections, and emphasised they are not a magic pill to solve the country\u2019s growing epidemic of diabetes and obesity.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for appetite-suppressing drugs such as Mounjaro, Wegovy and Ozempic has surged since they were introduced into the Indian market this year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/20\/rindia-doctors-sound-alarm-over-boom-in-availability-of-weight-loss-jabs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country is facing epidemic of diabetes and obesity, but experts say widespread and unregulated use of weight loss drugs could put patients at riskIndia\u2019s leading doctors have warned of the dangers of an unregulated boom in weight loss injections, and e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1484,346,62,3294,647,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes","category-health","category-india","category-obesity","category-pharmaceuticals-industry","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75691,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75690\/revisions\/75691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}