Hers is the only confirmed fatality linked to the jabs in the UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But it comes at a time when ministers are planning to rollout the jabs\u2014described as game changers in the fight against obesity\u2014 to even more Britons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The medicines watchdog has received over 100 reports of deaths linked to the use of weight-loss jabs for any reason<\/p>\n
The deaths may also be caused by underlying medical conditions or other medications taken at the same time and therefore can be coincidental the MHRA told\u00a0trade magazine\u00a0Chemist+Druggist<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Officials use the MHRA’s ‘Yellow Card’ database, set-up in the wake of the 1960s thalidomide scandal, to track the safety of medications currently in use in Britain.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although almost impossible to prove, the system allows doctors, pharmacists and patients to report adverse reactions they believe are linked to medications and allows officials to uncover potential patterns.<\/p>\n The weight-loss medication linked to the most deaths, in the system was liraglutide\u2014sold under the brand name Saxenda\u2014with 37 reports of a fatal outcome.<\/p>\n In second place was tirzepatide\u2014sold as Mounjaro and once hailed the ‘King Kong’ of slimming jabs\u2014with 33 deaths.<\/p>\n And in third place was semaglutide\u2014the active ingredient in the\u00a0weight loss<\/a>\u00a0jab Wegovy as well diabetes drug Ozempic\u2014which was linked to 30 deaths.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n A further seven reports were liked to dulaglutide\u2014known as Trulicity\u2014and five to lixisenatide\u2014which has the trade name\u00a0Lyxumia.<\/p>\n Of the total fatal reports, 32 involved jabs indicated for ‘weight management alone or ‘only licensed for weight management\u2014Mounjaro, Saxenda, Wegovy’.<\/p>\n The figure comes just months after the death Scottish nurse Susan McGowan, 58, who experienced multiple organ failure , septic shock and pancreatitis after taking just two doses of Mounjaro\u00a0<\/p>\n Meanwhile, 40 reports related to drugs with an indication for ‘diabetes alone’.<\/p>\n Another nine referred to patients getting the jab for ‘both weight management or diabetes’.<\/p>\n While 30 reported a fatal outcome ‘with an indication other than weight management or diabetes, or where no indication has been reported’, the watchdog told Chemist+Druggist.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99424561-14817249-image-a-5_1750088793088.jpg\")
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