A daily pill that is cheaper and easier to take than currently available weight loss drugs helps people lose around a tenth of their body weight over nearly 18 months, a study said Thursday.
Nov 20, 2025
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Researchers warned Wednesday that rising global consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) poses a major threat to health, calling for countries to subject some products made by huge food companies to marketing restrictions ...
Nov 19, 2025
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The increase of UPFs in diets worldwide presents an urgent challenge to health that demands coordinated policies and advocacy action to address, says a new three-paper Series authored by 43 global experts and published in ...
Nov 18, 2025
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A rare glimpse into the brain activity of a patient with obesity and loss of control eating on tirzepatide, marketed as Mounjaro and Zepbound, revealed that the medication suppresses signaling in the brain's "reward center" ...
Nov 17, 2025
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After years of work, cognition and neuroscience doctoral student Hailey Welch is—for the first time—the lead author of a study published in an academic journal, a paper appearing in Cell Reports, which examined the role of ...
Nov 13, 2025
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The rate of children and adolescents experiencing high blood pressure worldwide nearly doubled between 2000 and 2020, according to a new meta-analysis published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal.
Nov 12, 2025
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Results from the largest and longest study of its kind have found that the drug metformin can help manage weight gain in overweight or obese youth taking medication to treat bipolar disorder, and should be adopted as a standard ...
Nov 12, 2025
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In a major advance in metabolic research, scientists from National Taiwan University have discovered that ketone bodies produced naturally during the lactation period are not merely an alternative fuel, but act as powerful ...
Nov 12, 2025
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A Mayo Clinic study has found that both metabolic and bariatric surgery and GLP-1 medications improve cardiovascular health in people with obesity, but surgery was associated with significantly greater reductions in long-term ...
Apr 28, 2026
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Keeping tabs on blood sugar throughout the day used to be the exclusive domain of people with diabetes. But in 2026, anyone can buy a user-friendly wearable device that provides minute-by-minute readouts on how their glucose ...
Apr 28, 2026
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