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President Joe Biden unveiled a plan in November to cover the drugs ... medications through obesity specialists, giving them counseling on diet, exercise and side effect management.

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows about half of U.S. adults believe it is a good thing for adults to use weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and ...

Gov. Jared Polis and the Colorado state legislature have the opportunity this year to pass a law to help our sickest and most ...

Obesity should no longer be diagnosed solely based on body mass index (BMI); advanced body fat measures provide a clearer picture Pre-clinical obesity identifies risk factors early, while clinical ...

Former Trump administration health official Joe Grogan applauds Biden proposal that Medicare and Medicaid cover GLP-1 weight ...

The commission recommends a shift away from relying solely on BMI to more accurately define obesity as a disease.

27, 2025 — A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related ... Signposting Children to Weight Management Services Could Happen When Parents Attend an Adult Program Jan. 21 ...

Medicare distinguishes between weight management drugs for medically necessary reasons, which are covered, and cosmetic reasons, which are not. Yet current policy does not cover anti-obesity drugs ...

Russell Wooten of Hendersonville, North Carolina, has spent much of his life struggling with obesity, often carrying 260 pounds on his 6-foot-3 frame. He repeatedly starved himself to lose weight, ...

Medscape Medical News, October 01, 2015 HFSA CRT's Obesity Paradox in HF: Long-term Survival Rises With BMI Widely recognized but poorly understood, the inverse relationship between heart failure ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity. The global team’s recommendations were published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Jan. 14. Body mass index ...