Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Obesity

Why some people don’t lose weight with Wegovy

Clinical trials have shown that people using weight-loss jabs, such as Wegovy and Mounjaro, lose anywhere between 16% and 21% of their body weight. But the drugs don’t work for everyone.

The Conversation

208 million Americans are classified as obese or overweight, according to new study synthesizing 132 data sources

Nearly half of adolescents and three-quarters of adults in the U.S. were classified as being clinically overweight or obese in 2021. The rates have more than doubled compared with 1990.

The Conversation

Biden Administration Proposes Expanded Coverage For Anti-Obesity Drugs

Biden administration proposes expanding coverage for anti-obesity drugs to millions of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, potentially reducing out-of-poc...

Top News

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Novo Nordisk Foundation CEO dismisses ‘Nokia risk’ to Denmark’s economy

Novo Nordisk Foundation CEO Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen said only 9 million people are using GLP-1s compared with 1 billion people living with obesity.

Fortune

White House rule would expand coverage of anti-obesity drugs - Roll Call

It’s unclear whether incoming President Donald J. Trump will support outgoing President Joe Biden’s plan to insure the weight loss drugs.

Roll Call

Biden proposes Medicare and Medicaid cover costly weight-loss drugs for millions of obese Americans

Millions of obese Americans would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Tuesday morning

The Independent UK

Study finds yet another use for popular diabetes and obesity drugs

Several new uses have been found for the drugs

The Independent UK

Popular diabetes and obesity drugs also protect kidneys, study suggests

The combined reduction in the risk of kidney failure, worsening kidney function and death due to kidney disease was 19%, researchers found.

Evening Standard

Restaurant calorie labelling ‘sees no meaningful decrease in consumption’

The Government introduced mandatory calorie labelling in England for businesses that serve food in 2022 as part of its national obesity strategy.

The Independent UK

Scholar Rock Stock Jumps As Rival Biohaven's Muscle-Wasting Drug Flunks Pivotal Study

Biohaven reported taldefgrobep data showing motor function gains in SMA and plans to advance obesity studies with an autoinjector in 4Q24.

Benzinga

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

What happens when Ozempic and Wegovy don’t work?

Patients are shocked when they start getting the weekly injections but hardly lose weight

The Independent UK

Doctors worry about RFK Jr’s anti-Ozempic stance (and many of his other views)

Experts have argued Kennedy’s insistence that food reform would cure obesity and chronic disease is an oversimplification

The Conversation

Basic rules for screen time at a young age can help reduce childhood obesity – new research

Childhood obesity is a growing concern worldwide. But in New Zealand it’s a particularly pressing issue.

Fortune

Sitting too much is a danger not even exercise can undo. Here are 5 tips to move more

Existing research has tied sedentary behavior to a slew of health problems in both children and adults, from obesity and poor sleep to cancer and Type 2 diabetes.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Fat tissue discovery may explain why some people easily regain lost weight

Finding may lead to improved strategies for weight management

The Guardian - UK

Fat ‘remembering’ past obesity drives yo-yo diet effect, say experts

Research shows fat cells are affected by obesity in a way that alters how they respond to food, potentially for years

Dynamite News

Health: New type of blood test could identify children at risk of diabetes

Scientists have developed a novel blood test that uses lipids to identify children who are more susceptible to obesity-related problems, such as liver and heart disease. Read further on Dynamite News:

Evening Standard

RFK Jr: London scientists 'alarmed' by Trump's pick for Health Secretary

The former independent candidate has vowed to tackle the obesity crisis but has spread debunked conspiracy theories

The Independent UK

Supersize US: Without ‘immediate action’ nearly 260 million Americans will be overweight or obese by 2050

Researchers said the analysis lays bare a ‘decades-long-failure’ to tackle the overweight and obesity epidemic

The Independent UK

UK food system ‘relentlessly’ pushing consumers to unhealthy choices – report

The food environment is shaping diets and ‘setting us up to fail’, the Food Foundation charity said.

The Guardian - UK

Why have diabetes rates doubled over the past 30 years – and what can be done about it?

Rates of diabetes in adults have risen to 14%, an epidemic enabled by unhealthy lifestyles and an ageing population

1 … 19 20 21 22

People

Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen

18 stories

Chiquita BrooksLaSure

14 stories

Fatima Cody Stanford

12 stories

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Massachusetts General Hospital

46 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.