Starting a new medication, managing diabetes or weight loss, and experiencing gastrointestinal side effects can be stressful
GLP-1 medications work gradually, so patience and consistency are key to achieving long-term results
While clinical trials have not identified direct birth defects from semaglutide exposure, the medication was not extensively studied in pregnant populations, creating uncertainty
Whilst a handful of enterovirus vaccines are available, including for poliovirus (PV) and for EV-A71 (frequently responsible for serious outcomes of hand, foot and mouth disease) 1,2,3,4 , there are as yet no licenced anti-enterovirus drugs, despite evidence for efficacy in clinical trials and reports of extremely high potency for compounds targeting a pocket internal to capsid protein VP1 (termed here the P site) 5,6