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Newswise — Demand for weight-loss medications sold under brand names such as Ozempic and Wegovy continues to surge, with a recent study reporting one in eight Americans has taken or is currently using the drugs to treat diabetes, heart disease or obesity. Formally, these drugs are known as glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) and include…
That would slow the growth of the government’s spending on obesity drugs even as more people on Medicare started using them. New prices for the 10 drugs in the first round of price negotiations were announced last summer. Those prices will go into effect next year. Drugmakers were relieved that those cuts were not deeper….
While sitting down to watch your favourite television show may seem like a relaxing way to unwind, it also could fuel your appetite, leading to binge eating. A study, published by Elsevier in the February edition of the peer-reviewed journal Appetite, found that adults tend to eat more when glued to their screens, whether it’s…
Obesity should be assessed in a way that goes beyond the standard measure of body mass index, or B.M.I., according to a new definition of the condition released by an international commission. Its report, published Tuesday in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal, makes the case for focusing on how much body fat and what…
Newswise — For years, Université de Montréal medical professor Stephanie Fulton and her team have been unravelling the mechanisms in the human nervous system that control people’s need to eat and to engage in physical activity, and how their metabolism affects their mood. Their latest discovery, published in Nature Communications, takes that knowledge a step…
BYLINE: Enrique Rivero Newswise — Asians, non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics were significantly less likely than whites to use obesity-management medications to lower their weight compared with whites, new research suggests. The differences could not be fully explained by income or education level, health insurance coverage or clinical need. The study, published in the peer-reviewed Journal…
A production line of Wegovy injection pens for the Asian market at the Novo Nordisk A/S pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Hillerod, Denmark, on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images One interpretation of the law of supply and demand is that when demand outstrips supply, scammers get busy. That’s certainly the case…
Newswise — It might seem out of place on the side of a highway, but purpose-built exercise equipment installed at truck stops across Australia could be just the thing to encourage truck drivers to take a break and take control of their health and wellbeing. In the first meta-analysis of how health behaviour interventions can…
Newswise — A new rule by the Biden Administration would allow Wegovy and Ozempic to be covered by Medicare and Medicaid. The proposal would only apply to people who are obese, with a body mass index of 30 or higher and would expand the popular weight-loss drugs to over seven million Americans with Medicare and…
