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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