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‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul’: Obesity experts debate risks of new weight loss drugs

08.05.2023

Amid rising demand for drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic, and Mounjaro that can lead to significant weight loss, some obesity experts are concerned about the drugs’ costs — both to patients’ …

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Amid booming demand, Novo to hold back some doses of obesity drug Wegovy for new U.S. patients

04.05.2023

Novo Nordisk, the maker of the wildly popular obesity drug Wegovy, said Thursday it would temporarily limit some “starter” doses for new patients in the United States to ensure a …

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‘There’s a huge fatphobia problem in the eating disorder world’: Even in treatment, weight stigma fails patients

25.04.2023

This is part of a series about new obesity drugs that are transforming patients’ lives, dividing medical experts, and spurring one of the biggest business battles in years. Read more …

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New study gets beyond BMI in pregnancy to gauge child’s risk of obesity

05.04.2023

Obesity and diabetes in mothers have traditionally been considered risk factors for the child to also develop obesity. But a new study suggests that more narrow measures of health during …

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‘That scares me’: New childhood obesity guidelines still face a long road to consensus

20.03.2023

This is part of a series about new obesity drugs that are transforming patients’ lives, dividing medical experts, and spurring one of the biggest business battles in years. Read more …

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Covering new weight loss drugs could strain Medicare, policy experts warn

11.03.2023

The emergence of highly effective obesity drugs has spurred renewed efforts to get Medicare to pay for weight loss medications, but a group of health policy experts is sounding caution. …

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Watch: The troubled history of BMI, the body mass index

09.03.2023

The body mass index, or BMI, is the formula that’s used most often to diagnose overweight and obesity. But unlike other common diagnoses, there is a certain stigma applied to …

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A letter from the executive editor: The Obesity Revolution

07.03.2023

Dear Readers, Let me call your attention to an important new series at STAT: “The Obesity Revolution.” Over the coming days and months, we’ll examine a class of obesity drugs …

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Report: Obesity could cost the world over $4 trillion a year by 2035

02.03.2023

The costs of obesity are projected to soar globally, in step with rising prevalence, according to a new report from the World Obesity Federation, the only group focused solely on …

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