{"id":934423,"date":"2026-10-20T02:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934423\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T02:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:12:18","slug":"almost-1200-ed-presentations-linked-to-unapproved-peptide-use-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934423\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 1200 ED presentations linked to unapproved peptide use, figures show\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scale of harm linked to unapproved peptide use has been laid bare, with new figures revealing a sharp uptick in patients presenting to EDs in NSW after injecting peptides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were 1180 ED presentations associated with the products between 1 July 2025 and September 2026 for adverse reactions including anaphylaxis, a NSW Health report released today showed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monthly presentations had increased from just five in July last year to more than 217 in September 2026, the health department said, with presentations previously \u201cvery rare\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the 1180 cases, 833 mentioned \u2018retatrutide\u2019 \u2014 the weight loss drug that is not currently approved for prescription or purchase outside of a clinical trial, while 445 mentioned the generic term \u2018peptide\u2019 or other names of unapproved peptides, and 98 mentioned both.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scale of harm linked to unapproved peptide use has been laid bare, with new figures revealing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":["post-934423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}