Pumping the unemployed with weight-loss drugs echoes Victorian attitudes to the poor | Kenan Malik
The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry
OCTOBER 19, 2024
Shifting blame to the victims of economic policy is an old trick by politicians. Now they’re using obesity to tackle joblessness In early 2023, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, chief executive of the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, and its UK corporate vice-president Pinder Sahota, met in Whitehall with the then health secretary Steve Barclay, England’s chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, and various health and Treasury officials.
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