Medications
OTC supplement berberine is all over social media—does it really help you lose weight?
The latest health trend on TikTok has been dubbed "nature's own Ozempic". It's the herbal preparation berberine.
Jun 2, 2023
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Health
Investigating healthy lifestyle and mortality in osteoarthritis
Healthy lifestyles are thought to reduce mortality in the general population, but it is not known whether the same is true in osteoarthritis. Fan and colleagues present new data on the topic at the 2023 annual congress of ...
Jun 1, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Women with breast cancer shed pounds thanks to telephone-based weight loss program, clinical trial finds
Women with obesity when they are diagnosed with early breast cancer have a higher risk of recurrence or a second cancer compared to women whose weight is in the normal range and it can be hard to lose weight after being diagnosed ...
May 26, 2023
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Medical research
New study defines analytical performance specifications for 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D examinations
The first study to define analytical performance specifications for 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D examinations has been published by an expert working group of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory ...
May 23, 2023
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Overweight & Obesity
Too few primary care doctors address obesity with their patients, highlighting need for weight loss tool
After finding that few to no clinicians provided weight management care, researchers developed a weight loss tool called PATHWEIGH. This tool was designed to remove clinician barriers in providing patient care that addressed ...
May 23, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
A toddler's gut bacteria predict whether they will be overweight at 5 years old, finds new research
The make-up and volume of gut bacteria in toddlers at 3.5 years old is predictive of body mass index (BMI) at age 5, irrespective of whether they are born prematurely or not, according to new research, being presented at ...
May 19, 2023
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Cardiology
Study finds cardiovascular risk score improves after one year of semaglutide use in patients with overweight and obesity
New research presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity in Dublin, Ireland shows that patients treated with the obesity drug semaglutide have a decreased cardiovascular risk score after one year of use. The study ...
May 19, 2023
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Medications
Semaglutide shown to be effective for weight loss in multicenter, one-year real-world study
New research presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO2023, Dublin, 17-20 May) shows that the obesity drug semaglutide is effective for weight loss in a multicenter, 1-year-long real-world study. The study ...
May 19, 2023
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Overweight & Obesity
Nearly half of adolescents using semaglutide in trial dropped below the clinical cutoff for obesity
A new secondary analysis of the STEP TEENS trial presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2023, Dublin May 17-20) and published in the journal Obesity shows that almost half (45%) of the adolescents assigned ...
May 17, 2023
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Health
Muscle fat linked to higher mortality risk
Asymptomatic adults with a high accumulation of fat in their muscles, known as myosteatosis, are at an increased risk of major adverse events and death, according to a study published in Radiology.
May 16, 2023
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