Category: OBESITY

A new clinic aims to fix that

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Brooke Boyarsky Pratt remembers when her childhood doctor told her mom that her daughter weighed too much. “You should send her to fat camp,” she remembers

What’s overweight enough for lower disability after stroke?

Slightly overweight stroke survivors have a lower risk of sustaining disabilities. The Kobe University finding adds another aspect to the obesity paradox but also highlights the importance of considering the

Medicaid covers GLP-1 meds for obesity in just 13 states, analysis finds

Poorer folks’ access to blockbuster weight-loss drugs through Medicaid remains limited, a new KFF analysis has found. Only 13 states currently allow Medicaid to cover treatment of obesity using glucagon-like

Preventing obesity in very young children could be in the palm of parents’ hands

Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels A study co-led by a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center clinician-researcher shows that adding text messaging and other electronic feedback to traditional in-clinic health counseling

Insulin resistance caused by sympathetic nervous system over-activation, a paradigm-shifting study finds

Credit: Cell Metabolism (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2024.09.012 Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and collaborating institutions have found that overnutrition leads to insulin resistance and metabolic disorders through increased activity of