Trending News Europe – January 25, 2024

In this episode, Jack, Ollie, and Jen discuss some recent European-based newsworthy items, including the potential impact of Wegovy in reducing excess deaths in the UK, a groundbreaking report on minimising the environmental footprint of surgical care, and Lithuania’s  innovation wave in biotech and MedTech.

Podcast Tags: healthcare, healthcare news, life sciences, obesity, medtech, sustainability, biotech, medtech, innovation, lithuania 

Source Links: 

• Excess mortality in England post COVID-19 pandemic: implications for secondary prevention 
• UK life expectancy falls to lowest level in a decade 
• Excess deaths involving cardiovascular disease: an analysis 
• Wegovy made available in the uk for weight loss in people with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes 
• Our response to serious supply issues of drugs for people with type 2 diabetes 
• Ministers launch £40m pilot scheme to trial wider access to slimming jab 
• Health Inequalities, Lives, Cut Short, January 2024 

• Can Denmark’s world-beating drugs maker stay ahead? 
• Landmark report on reducing environmental impact of surgical care published 
• Green Surgery – Reducing the environmental impact of surgical care 
• Lithuania Set to Become Home to Largest Biotech City 
• Baltic-bound: is Lithuania desirable for EU life science investment? 

Panel –  Jack Young, Jen Burke, Ollie May 

Research & Production – Jack Young, Ollie May 

Recording & Editing – Mike Liberto, Rachel Skonecki  

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