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News Articles: Obesity

Compounded alternatives to Zepbound are on the way out.

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  • Health

Patients scramble as cheaper obesity drug alternatives disappear

Compounding pharmacies have been allowed to essentially make a cheaper version of Eli Lilly's Zepbound, but they have to stop Wednesday. That has left many patients wondering what to do next.

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin

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  • Health

Move aside, BMI: There's a better way to define obesity, commission finds

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds more ways to measure body composition and fat.

January 15, 2025
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By:
  • Allison Aubrey

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  • Health

As obesity rates rise, Georgia needs more funding for preventative programs, report says

A decade ago, no state reported an obesity rate of more than 35%, but now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there are 23 — including Georgia.

September 17, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
People who exercise regularly have a greater capacity to store fat under the skin, which is better than storing it around organs like the liver and the heart.

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  • Your Health

People who exercise have healthier belly fat, new study finds

Here's another good reason to keep exercising. A study finds people with obesity who exercise can store more fat under the skin instead of around their organs, which is much better for their health.

September 16, 2024
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By:
  • Maria Godoy
GLP-1 drugs, like Wegovy and Ozempic, may not be good only for diabetes and weight-loss. They are also showing promise for preventing some cancers.

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  • Health

Weight-loss drugs like Wegovy may help stave off some cancers

Several new studies find promising evidence that the GLP-1 class of drugs may have a cancer-preventive effect, especially for cancers linked to obesity.

August 12, 2024
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
Medicaid plans aren't required to cover Wegovy for weight loss and obesity, but some do and others are considering adding it for those uses.

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  • Health

Decades-old law limits access to Wegovy for Medicaid beneficiaries

New medications like Wegovy are changing the way people lose weight and manage obesity, but many Medicaid beneficiaries can't get them.

May 09, 2024
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Wegovy, a semaglutide medication, will be covered by Medicare.

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  • Health

Medicare plans can now cover Wegovy for patients at risk of heart disease

This change follows the recent FDA approval of the weight-loss drug for preventing heart attack and stroke in people with overweight or obesity.

March 22, 2024
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi and
  • Carmel Wroth
Kate Manne

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  • Health

In 'Unshrinking,' a writer discusses coming out as fat and pushing back against bias

Kate Manne tried to shrink her body for years before embracing her size as part of a "natural, normal human variation." She says the fight against fat phobia must start in the doctor's office.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Mara Gordon
People with metabolic syndrome, which can include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar and several other conditions, are at higher risk of getting cancer, a new study finds.

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  • Health

How high blood sugar, hypertension and obesity can add up to cancer risk

It's known that obesity is linked to many cancers. A study shows metabolic syndrome, which includes factors like high blood pressure and insulin resistance, also drives increased risk.

March 12, 2024
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By:
  • Will Stone
John Simon, a teenager who had a bariatric surgery in 2022, watches as his sister, Haley, opens a refrigerator for food in their apartment in Los Angeles, Monday, March 13, 2023

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  • Children's Health

Investment in early childhood mental health may reduce crime, boost national security, veterans say

Members of the Council for a Strong America are calling on the Georgia legislature to ensure that the state budget prioritizes and promotes early childhood priorities, including mental health.

February 19, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
John Simon, a teenager who had a bariatric surgery in 2022, watches as his sister, Haley, opens a refrigerator for food in their apartment in Los Angeles, Monday, March 13, 2023.

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  • Children's Health

Preventative action is needed now to reduce Georgians' risk of disease in the future

Georgia ranks 49 in overall prevalence with 37.3% of children considered either overweight or obese. The Georgia prevalence of overweight and obese children has risen since 2003.

February 06, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge

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  • Health

Opinion: Women with obesity are often restricted from IVF. That's discriminatory

Despite the lack of medical evidence for doing so, fertility clinics bar women over a certain BMI from their services. One writer makes the case such limits are unfair and unscientific.

January 14, 2024
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By:
  • Becca Muir
Drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co. received Food and Drug Administration approval for an obesity drug called Zepbound that will be a rival to Novo Nordisk's Wegovy.

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  • Health

FDA approves Zepbound, a new obesity drug that will take on Wegovy

Eli Lilly said the obesity medicine, which helped adults in clinical studies lose about 20% of their body weight, will be available in the U.S. by the end of the year. The list price will be $1,060.

November 08, 2023
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
The author awaits a bowl of ramen noodles in a Tokyo restaurant.

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  • Health

What the U.S. could learn from Japan about making healthy living easier

On a trip back to her parents' native country, a writer rediscovers what makes it different. The urban design, and a culture that values longevity, make good health come al lot more naturally.

August 06, 2023
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
Preventing obesity could help Georgia health care outcomes, but public health is chronically underfunded, a report from Trust for America's Health says.

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  • Health

Obesity prevention is one of many chronically underfunded public health programs in Georgia

The annual Trust for America’s Health report finds the CDC's budget has risen just 6% in the last decade and needs a 26% boost to help fund emergency public health programs in Georgia and the rest of the nation.

June 20, 2023
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
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