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The short supply, high prices, and despicable insurance restrictions for advanced obesity medicines have created many problems. For example, compounding of these medicines has been and continues to be controversial – for good reasons. Now, FDA is recognizing one of the most pernicious threats to emerge from this situation – sketchy sellers of “research” peptides. […]

Drinking alcohol causes cancer – at least seven different types of it, says the Surgeon General. It can also cause a slew of other chronic diseases – liver disease, heart disease, dementia, diabetes, and obesity to name a few. So with this administration making a lot of noise about making America healthy and reducing the […]

Last week, in a meeting with senior staff from the FDA responsible for labeling, we were dumbfounded. We learned that these pharmacologists did not regard it as important for clinicians to know the half-life of posaconazole in persons with obesity. In fact, they told us “it could potentially be confusing.” On the spot this was […]

The magical Mirror of Erised can drive people mad by showing them their deepest desires. Judging by the flood of papers in recent days, it seems that one such desire is to find consensus for a clinical definition of obesity. In the past week alone, three such publications have crossed our screens. In the past […]

It is eye-popping really. Novo Nordisk issued a press release from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress over the weekend, with extravagant claims for Wegovy versus tirzepatide. Specifically, the claim was that “Wegovy cuts risk of heart attack, stroke or death by 57% compared to tirzepatide.” This is quite an amazing claim to make. […]

Researchers presented and published two major studies of heart disease outcomes at the ESC Congress of the European Society of Cardiology over the weekend with strikingly different findings. In the REBOOT study, scientists found that beta blockers have no effect on outcomes when given to patients after a heart attack. None. People might be better […]

Empathetic, respectful care sounds like a reasonable expectation for a primary care visit. New research, conducted by the Obesity Action Coalition, Drexel University, the ABOM Foundation, and Thoughtform, shows the way to take this from an aspiration to reality. Simply stated, persons living with obesity want more respect and less finger pointing in primary obesity […]

This has been a bad week for the CDC. Wednesday night, a spokesman for President Trump, Kush Desai announced that the White House had terminated CDC Director Susan Monarez because she was “not aligned with the President’s agenda of Making America Healthy Again.” She had been sworn into that position only last month by HHS […]

We are on a steady diet of studies with a seemingly singular aim: to persuade us ultra-processed foods are really, really bad for us. We get the point. But the nourishment for our brains from this unbalanced research diet seems deficient. The latest is an RCT that shows us oatmeal made from scratch is a […]

New research in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology tells us that walking the talk of a healthy lifestyle for preventing heart disease is not so easy. Perhaps the most striking number from this research relates to dietary recommendations. The American College of Cardiology (ACC) recommends a whole-food plant-based diet for cardiovascular disease […]