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Opinion: STAT readers on new CDC Covid guidelines, weight loss drugs and mental health, and new psychiatric meds
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STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays…

U.S. regulators approved a label expansion for Novo Nordisk’s obesity drug Wegovy to tout its…

Why are addiction treatments so hard to get? Can small companies compete in obesity? And…

A pill being developed by Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk may lead to greater weight loss…

LONDON — Novo Nordisk’s diabetes medication Ozempic cut the risk of patients developing advanced kidney…

More than 1 billion people — or one in eight people worldwide — are now…

Are biotech’s dog days over? What’s a PIPE? And what can unseat Wegovy? We cover…

LEXINGTON, Mass. — New obesity drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound are currently taken once a…

Study Ties Regular Hearing Aid Use to Longer Life Span Using hearing aids significantly increased…

An obesity medication from Viking Therapeutics succeeded in a Phase 2 clinical study, the company…
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LONDON — A drug in development as a weight loss treatment succeeded in a Phase…

As drugmakers race to join the obesity drug market ignited by the approval of Wegovy…

Add “cholesterol ratio” to the complex terminology of lipid panels. A lipid panel is a…

WASHINGTON — Drugmakers are doing everything to tap the bottomless well of demand for new…

Mental illness can cause or worsen obesity, and obesity can cause or worsen mental illness….

DENVER — The GLP-1 medication liraglutide significantly reduced opioid cravings in a small analysis presented on…
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The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on websites that claim to sell the…
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A California biotech developing a combination therapy with the obesity drug Zepbound has raised a…

Eventually, the luckiest companies get to deal with a very particular problem: what to do…

The blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drug sold by Eli Lilly also appears to improve…

More than half of the injector-pen patents for several widely used diabetes treatments — including…

Sixteen billion dollars is a lot of money. But Monday’s announcement that the parent company…

LONDON — The investment arm of Novo Nordisk’s parent foundation is buying drug manufacturer Catalent…

Amgen is trying a unique strategy with its obesity drug candidate: testing whether it can…

LONDON — Novo Nordisk said Wednesday that it had started to increase the availability of…

Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy — already game changers for diabetes and obesity — are…

More than 60 million women in the United States have heart disease, and one of…

There are countless studies showing that physical activity helps improve mental and physical health, and…

You may have heard that chronic inflammation is associated with the development of serious diseases,…

I am getting bent out of shape over surgeons telling patients they cannot get a…

STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays…

A preliminary evaluation by the Food and Drug Administration did not find evidence that GLP-1…

New weight loss medications like Ozempic and Wegovy have garnered a lot of attention in…

Novo Nordisk may already have one blockbuster obesity drug in its portfolio, but the Danish…
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There’s an old story in journalism, and it goes like this: A reporter is asked,…

About a decade ago, after becoming obese, Jacob Petersen lost weight so quickly that some…

As another year comes to an end and the world seems to hit the proverbial…

LONDON — Starting in the new year, a team of researchers in the U.K. and…

Chronic disease is, by its very definition, omnipresent. But changes year to year have the…

Walking is a favorite exercise here at Focus on Healthy Aging—it’s something you can do…

Have you ever opened a bag of potato chips and found it impossible to eat…

Every winter, like Punxsutawney nobles, biotech’s many thought leaders gather in San Francisco to pick…

It’s long been known that a good night’s sleep sets the stage for a productive…

As more data emerges that obesity drugs like Wegovy can reduce complications from heart and…

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…

Structure Therapeutics said Monday that its experimental GLP-1 pill demonstrated a 1% lowering of blood…

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It’s no secret that the obesity epidemic in the United States has reached alarming levels,…

NEW YORK — Will the world actually soon spend $100 billion a year on the…