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Skinny jabs: Shedding pounds or losing lives?

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They’re marketed as a ‘miracle injection.’
 
Weight loss jabs have become the popular answer to the UK’s growing obesity crisis.
 
But new research from ITV News can reveal that these very injections have suspected links to at least 18 deaths.
 
So, what happens when the jabs go wrong? And are there enough warnings in place?
 
ITV News Health Correspondent Rebecca Barry tells Lucrezia Millarini what you need to know…