injection

Treatment with the benralizumab injection took longer to fail, meaning fewer episodes to see a doctor or go to hospital.

Alison says she felt "drastically different" after having the injection and still uses her inhalers but "only because I've been told to".

As part of the therapy, now discredited, injections of insulin would plunge a patient into deep coma as the brain was starved of sugar.

But it can also be administered by a doctor or nurse, usually via an intravenous injection.

The drug, using the brand name MariTide, is given by injection once a month, compared with once a week for other obesity drugs like Wegovy and Mounjaro that are already on the market.