Obesity and Weight Management News

• Lilly Hits Record High After Mounjaro Fuels Forecast Raise Eli Lilly on Tuesday raised its annual forecasts as demand for new diabetes drug Mounjaro surges ahead of a decision on its use as a weight-loss treatment.
  Reuters Health Information, August 08, 2023
• How Newly Discovered Genes Might Fit Into Obesity Newly discovered genes could explain body fat differences between men and women with obesity, as well as why some people gain excess weight in childhood.
  WebMD Health News, August 08, 2023
• Semaglutide Cuts Cardiovascular Events in Landmark Trial Top-line results show semaglutide for weight loss (Wegovy) cut cardiovascular events in the 17,000-person SELECT CV outcomes trial, which should reframe the health benefit of this weight loss drug.
  Medscape Medical News, August 08, 2023
• Prioritize Nutrients, Limit Ultraprocessed Food in Diabetes Besides prioritizing a nutritionally balanced eating plan, such as a Mediterranean diet, guidelines for type 2 diabetes should also recommend limiting ultraprocessed foods, say researchers in Italy.
  Medscape Medical News, August 08, 2023
• Sugary Drinks Up Risk for Liver Cancer, Liver Disease Death Consuming sugar-sweetened drinks, but not artificially sweetened beverages, may be associated with higher rates of liver cancer and death from liver disease, new data show.
  Medscape Medical News, August 08, 2023
• Why 'Help Others' Is Healthy Advice to Give Your Patients Giving to others isn't just generous -- it's healthy and linked to longer life. Here's what's going on in the body when we help someone.
  WebMD Health News, August 07, 2023
• Just 1 in 10 With Overweight/Obesity Lose 5% of Body Weight The proportions achieving a healthy body weight are even lower.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2023
• One Size Doesn’t Fit All for BP Measurement Researchers hope their work empowers patients to select the best cuff sizes for home blood pressure devices.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2023
• Preterm Birth Rates Higher in Black Patients Twelve percent of non-Hispanic Black individuals experience preterm birth, nearly double the figure for non-Hispanic Whites, a new study found.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2023
• IAS 2023 Results From Halted Islatravir Antiretroviral Trial Recruitment stopped on the phase 3 trial of the once-daily oral drug islatravir in combination with doravirine, but the study of the investigational new option for HIV continued for the full 48 weeks.
  Medscape Medical News, August 04, 2023
• Psychiatrists Prescribe Wegovy for Medication-Induced Weight Gain Psychiatrists are increasingly prescribing the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy to patients who gain weight from medicines used to treat mental disorders, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
  Reuters Health Information, August 03, 2023
• Clinicians Debate the Usefulness of NAFLD Name Change Many clinicians are not happy about a global consensus group having changed the name of NAFLD and related liver diseases.
  Medscape Medical News, August 03, 2023
• ASRS 2023 Do GLP-1 Agonists Worsen Diabetic Retinopathy? Patients taking glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists were more likely to progress from nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy to proliferative disease or diabetic macular edema than those who took sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors.
  Medscape Medical News, August 03, 2023
• Obesity Cardiomyopathy Linked to Sudden Cardiac Death A heavier heart in the setting of obesity is associated with a heightened risk of sudden cardiac death, even if patients have no other cardiovascular risk factors, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, August 03, 2023
• Lawsuit Alleges Untold Stomach Risks From Ozempic, Mounjaro A new lawsuit from a woman with type 2 diabetes alleges that the makers of the drugs Ozempic and Mounjaro did not provide adequate warnings of the severity of stomach problems caused by the medicines.
  WebMD Health News, August 03, 2023
• McKesson Lifts Annual Profit Forecast Drug distributer McKesson on Wednesday raised its full-year profit forecast after strong demand for specialty medicines and weight-loss drugs boosted first-quarter results above estimates.
  Reuters Health Information, August 02, 2023
• Using Ozempic for 'Minor' Weight Loss: Fair or Foul? "Are people going to think I'm crazy for doing this?"
  WebMD Health News, August 03, 2023
• ADA 2023 Time-Restricted Eating Gains for Weight and Glycemic Control Evidence accumulates for a consistent benefit from time-restricted eating for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity and for improved glycemic control in people with type 2 diabetes.
  Medscape Medical News, August 03, 2023
• Nonalcohol Substance Use Disorder Tied to Bariatric Surgery The rate of this disorder was found to be 2.5 times higher among those who had gastric bypass surgery compared with a control group.
  Medscape Medical News, August 01, 2023
• Bipolar Tied to a Sixfold Increased Risk of Early Death Bipolar disorder is linked to a sixfold increased risk of premature death from external causes and a twofold increased risk of early death from somatic disease than the general population.
  Medscape Medical News, August 01, 2023