THE MIDDLE SEAT BLUES Wednesday, February 7, 2024 Airline travel is not just a continuing challenge for most of my patients, but being stuck in the middle seat is no fun for anyone (and yes, I’ve been ...

The Difference Between “Ozempic-Face” and “Mounjaro-Babies” Monday, November 6, 2023 Followers of social and other media will have by now heard the term “Ozempic-” or “Wegovy-face”, which refers to ...

What I Noticed at Obesity Week 2023 Friday, November 3, 2023 A few weeks ago, I attended Obesity Week, the annual scientific meeting of The Obesity Society, in Dallas. As expected, there was a ...

Getting AOMs on Drug Formularies Tuesday, October 24, 2023 Last week I chaired and moderated a workshop for formulary managers (mostly pharmacists and pharmacoeconomists) in Ryadh. The goal was to ...

Last week at Obesity Week, Ildiko Lingvay (UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas) presented a plenary talk in which she discussed weight-centric vs. gluco-centric approaches to managing patients with ...

Going With The FLOW? Thursday, October 12, 2023 This week, Novo Nordisk announced the early stop of the FLOW trial, a Phase 3 trial comparing kidney outcomes for injectable semaglutide 1.0 mg vs.

This week Novo Nordisk released the topline results of the SELECT trial, apparently showing that once-weekly treatment with 2.4 mg semaglutide s.c. results in a 20% reduction in the composite endpoint ...

Will Severe Obesity go the Way of Malignant Hypertension? Tuesday, June 27, 2023 Back in the mid-eighties, when I was still training in nephrology, it seemed not a week would go by without being ...

Yesterday, the UK Government announced a plan to spend £40 million on a two-year pilot to explore ways to make obesity drugs accessible to patients living with obesity outside of hospital settings.

Is It Time To Change The Ask? Tuesday, May 30, 2023 Most readers will be quite familiar with my 5As of Obesity Management (Ask, Assess, Advise, Agree, and Assist). Until now, we have emphasized that ...

Medications Only Work When You Take Them! Tuesday, January 3, 2023 Now that we have medications for managing obesity that are safer and more effective than ever before, the issue of how to get ...

What Obesity Policies Do We Need? Thursday, September 22, 2022 Earlier this week, I presented at a high-level UK Health Policy Workshop on how I would shape policies to deal with the obesity issue. My ...