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Who should be taking weight-loss drugs? Doctors share best candidates
GLP-1 medications offer promising benefits for obesity and diabetes patients, with studies showing reduced heart attack risk ...
Health Rounds: Patients drop fewer pounds with weight-loss drugs in real world than in trials
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -People who take weight-loss drugs hoping to achieve the impressive results observed in large ...
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Weight-Loss Supplements: What Physicians Should Know About Safety, Efficacy, and Counseling Patients
The online market for weight-loss supplements is still a hot topic, and many patients have questions. Should physicians ever ...
Injectable medications for obesity found to produce smaller weight loss in a real-world setting
A Cleveland Clinic study shows that semaglutide and tirzepatide—injectable GLP-1 drugs for obesity—produce smaller weight ...
Weight-loss drugs were said to be a game changer. Turns out the benefit might be thinner than thought
Lastly, the researchers observed that while patients who discontinued obesity medications lost significantly less weight ...
‘Game changing’ fat jabs WON’T help you lose as much weight as you think, scientists discover
SO-CALLED “miracle” weight-loss jabs are far less effective in the real world than in clinical trials, a major study has revealed. The new findings could have big implications for Brits ...
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Novel Gene Risk Score Predicts Outcomes After RYGB Surgery
A new gene risk score, informed by machine learning, can predict weight-loss outcomes after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.
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Cleveland Clinic research finds injectable medications for obesity produce smaller weight loss in a real-world setting, compared to randomized clinical trials
UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 3 a.m. EDT, CLEVELAND: A Cleveland Clinic ... Dr. Gasoyan. Researchers also identified what factors were associated with higher odds of achieving weight ...
More U.S. Teens Are Now Taking Wegovy for Weight Loss
THURSDAY, June 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — More American teenagers now use the weight-loss drug Wegovy, as doctors and ...