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Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Newstalk Breakfast brings you all the news you need to set you up for the day – from politics, business, sport, entertainment and everything in between. Shane Coleman and Ciara Kelly have all the stories that matter, every weekday from 7-9AM. Listen and subscribe to Newstalk Breakfast Highlights on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Medical Council warns doctors against using Ozempic

Doctors have been warned about prescribing the Ozempic diabetes drug to treat obesity. According to reports in the Irish Times, the guidance has been made by the Medical Council, the Department of Health, the HSE, Health Products Regulatory Authority and Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland. Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast was Prof Francis Finucane, consultant endocrinologist at University Hospital Galway, has more than 3,000 patients at his obesity clinic on Ozempic.