As the drugs have gained name recognition among adults, they’ve also become increasingly popular with children and adolescents. But are the safe?
"Microdosing" is the newest trend in weight loss for those looking to avoid the side effects associate with injections, but is it safe?
Several obesity experts said perhaps 20% of patients — as many as 1 in 5 — may not respond well to the medications.
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.
Unlike scores of people who scrambled for the blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy to lose weight in recent years, Danielle Griffin had no trouble getting them. For her, the hardest part of using the new drugs wasn’t access. It was finding out that the much-hyped medications didn’t really wo…
Each year, over half a million Americans have a stroke, but up to 80% may be preventable with better nutrition, exercise and screening.
Those ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different look.
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President-elect Donald Trump has announced his appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr as US Secretary of Health and Human Services.    Kennedy ran for president in this year's election as an independent candidate before dropping out and endorsing Trump in exchange for a role in the Republican'…
Doctors say requests for permanent sterilizations and long-term birth control have surged across the nation as well since Donald Trump was elected president.
"Your body, my choice." Attacks on women have spiked on social media since the election, and now they're starting to reach the real world.
Next City spotlights the organization of pilots making abortion possible for those facing economic barriers to reproductive freedom.
Since Trump won the election, Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic about a country in which women are brutally repressed has been high on the Amazon's best seller list.
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