May 19, 2023 — Nearly half of teens given the weight loss drug semaglutide (Wegovy) managed to lose enough weight to drop below the clinical threshold for obesity, a new study shows. By comparison, only 12.1% of adolescents with obesity given a placebo in the 68-week trial dropped below the threshold. Semaglutide belongs to a class of… […]
By Joe Nadglowski, president/CEO, Obesity Action Coalition, as told to Alexandra Benisek In the WebMD webinar “The Impact of Weight Bias,”Joe Nadglowski, president and CEO of the Obesity Action Coalition, answered viewer questions about how discrimination due to body weight can affect your life. We know there are at least perceptions that weight bias is different in… […]
By Cara Murez HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, May 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Most cases of mpox are spread from skin-to-skin contact, but it is possible to catch the virus by touching a contaminated surface in a house or a hospital room, according to a new study.Researchers studying this found temperature made a difference. The virus could survive… […]
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, May 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) — It’s been known for years that Epstein-Barr virus can trigger multiple sclerosis or drive progression of the degenerative disease, and Swedish researchers think they now understand why.Some people have antibodies against the common Epstein-Barr virus that mistakenly attack a protein found in the brain and… […]
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