
A Healthy Lifestyle Today Can Make Up for Past Behaviors
If you’re a woman over 50 who’s recently embraced a healthy lifestyle, you might wonder…

If you’re a woman over 50 who’s recently embraced a healthy lifestyle, you might wonder…

Q: My big toe hurts. Is it possible that I have gout? Isn’t gout a…

Is improving the quality of your dietary pattern on your short list for resolutions this…

Time-Restricted Eating Did Not Benefit Weight or Health in Trial In a relatively small randomized,…

To address soaring rates of childhood obesity, the American Academy of Pediatrics last year endorsed…

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Good morning! Today STAT is publishing the final installment in the “Embedded Bias” series. My…

CHICAGO — The last place you might have expected Kevin Hall to make a plea…

The first late-stage trial of a GLP-1 drug in young children with obesity showed the…

One of the biopharma industry’s marvels of the 2020s has been the enormous medical and…

How effective is Summit Therapeutics’ lung cancer immunotherapy? Why are obesity drugmakers turning back to…

Nearly two decades ago, a small company called Amylin Pharmaceuticals saw that its first commercial…

LONDON — When Europe’s largest cardiology conference opened here this past Friday, one of the…

What’s behind the “great abandonment” in gene therapy R&D? How does a startup spend $213…

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In April of this year, the U.S. government awarded millions of dollars to scientists to…

Several years ago, while on a road trip, I ordered the now-discontinued spaghetti and meatballs…

What does the hiring of a well-known industry dealmaker mean for the future of BioMarin…

Eli Lilly’s obesity drug Zepbound significantly cut the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, showing…

LONDON — An underwhelming earnings report and ongoing questions about increasing competition in the booming…

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In the face of ongoing shortages of the obesity and diabetes medications known as GLP-1s,…

Eli Lilly’s obesity drug Zepbound cut the risk of complications and improved symptoms in patients…

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A new study suggests that an older GLP-1 drug may help protect the brains of…

What makes UnitedHealth similar to Standard Oil? Is Viking Therapeutics an attractive acquisition target? And…

LONDON — In the booming field of weight loss drugs, Roche has been riding high…

I have a small hiatal hernia. Will it get bigger? Will I need surgery? Hiatal…

Viking Therapeutics plans to move its injectable obesity treatment into a Phase 3 study faster…

What relation does JD Vance have with Vivek Ramaswamy? Do pharma companies have a moral…

LONDON — Roche on Wednesday reported positive early data from another of the obesity drug…

Why are pharmaceutical companies cutting more staff than cash-strapped biotechs? And who will Pfizer scout…

Pfizer said that it plans to advance a new once-a-day formulation of its experimental obesity…

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New research found that the GLP-1 class of drugs — glucagon-like peptide receptor agonists —…

A new observational study on Wednesday reported for the first time a potential link between…

My dad, Randy, a 72-year-old retired sales manager, started to gain weight after grad school,…

A new and effective class of anti-obesity medicines, along with lifestyle interventions and sometimes bariatric…
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WASHINGTON — A House committee overwhelmingly passed four bills on Thursday that would expand Medicare…

Will Medicare finally begin covering weight loss drugs like Zepbound and Wegovy? And what health…

Once in a while it’s normal to have difficulty falling asleep because you have a…

WASHINGTON — As weight loss medications have exploded in popularity, a bill to allow Medicare…