(HealthDay News) — The number of US adults with severe obesity increased from 2013 to 2023, according to a research letter published online Feb. 13 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Allowing such medications as options could lead to significant savings from improved health, writes Kelley Koch.
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An obesity medicine physician writes that weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic have been getting a bad rap, almost as if those ...
Major heart health risk factors like obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure remain on the rise in the United States, according to an annual report from the American Heart Association. These ...
The Trump administration has promised that addressing childhood obesity will be a key part of its “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. That’s much easier said than done.
Prescriptions of obesity management drugs (OMDs) have increased, and these increasing trends are associated with online search trends.
Obesity rates vary from 5% to 50% in different parts of the United States. People with obesity often face the bias that they are “lazy, unmotivated, and undisciplined,” the paper noted.
LONDON/COPENHAGEN, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk defended its next-generation obesity drug candidate ... biggest market for obesity drugs, the United States. Novo plans to begin a new trial ...