Posts Tagged ‘obesity’

The first shall be last and the last shall be first. Right now, it seems that Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical company that was first to commit and break through with a major advance in obesity is now falling behind Eli Lilly and Company. This is a story of risk, reward, and caution in the competition […]

Regeneron announced tantalizing results for the combination of trevogrumab with semaglutide for losing fat while preserving muscle. With the combination of these two drugs, it appears that individuals might lose more fat mass and less muscle mass than with semaglutide alone. In short, the promise is for a better quality of weight loss, leaving people […]

It is fascinating. Nutrition 2025 concluded yesterday in Orlando and even though the conference is all about nutrition research, an intense interest in the interaction of GLP-1 medicines with nutrition was a theme in the meeting from its very start all the way to the end. At the end, with two distinguished obesity researchers, Randy […]

A new analysis from Milliman has a revelation for health plan managers complaining loudly about the burdensome costs of GLP-1s blowing up their budgets. They’re doing it wrong. Expenses for GLP-1s that can dramatically improve the health of persons with obesity simply do not have to break the bank for a health plan. In fact, […]

“If you don’t have a solution for me, then it’s not a problem.” This concise statement of wisdom distilled from human behavior explains why it has been so hard for so many years to have people pay attention to obesity in any constructive way. Doctors largely ignored it and rarely diagnosed it. Patients denied it. […]

“It’s absolutely insane to try to keep up with it all,” says obesity medicine physician Laura Davisson. She is talking about the impossible maze of requirements that so-called health insurance plans set up to prevent people from securing coverage for medicines to treat obesity. It leads us to ask: Are health plans insuring profits more […]

The annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology is not where we typically get insights on obesity. But from this year’s meeting, another hint emerges that treating obesity treatment may prevent some of the cancer that arises from obesity. This hint comes from a large and seemingly careful study of 170,030 persons with […]

In BMJ Public Health, Annabel Davies and colleagues have published a new analysis of interventions to prevent obesity in children. They started with data from two Cochrane systematic reviews published in 2024 (here and here) and applied a Bayesian multi-level meta-regression analysis. What they found were obesity prevention effects that range from being small and […]

Obesity care is in the midst of an awkward but critical transition. Standards of care for obesity are leaking out from specialists in obesity medicine through a process of translation to the setting of primary care for the masses. Primary care for obesity will draw upon the authoritative work of organizations like Obesity Canada, The […]

New studies released yesterday at ECO2025 remind us doctors and other health professionals often miss things that are quite obvious to people living with obesity. For one thing, there is the phenomenon of food noise. It’s very real for many people with obesity. For health professionals, it can seem a bit abstract. Then there is […]