Public employees in West Virginia who took the drugs lost weight and were healthier, and some are despondent that the state is canceling a program to help pay for them.
Dr. Joanna Bailey said most of her patients in Pineville, W.Va. who need weight loss drugs don’t have insurance to cover the cost and can’t afford the sticker price.
“Obesity first” doctors say they start with one medication, to treat obesity, and often find other chronic diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis, simply vanish.
With Wegovy, one of the new obesity drugs, Lesa Walton not only lost more than 50 pounds; her arthritis cleared up and she no longer needed pills to lower her blood pressure, she said.
He also identified the virus, which can cause infants to be born with severe physical and mental impairments as well as causing miscarriages and stillbirths.
Dr. Paul D. Parkman, right, and Dr. Harry M. Meyer Jr. inspecting a culture of the rubella virus in 1967. Working with a team of researchers, they created a vaccine for the disease.
When a child in a small Cambodian town fell sick recently, his rapid decline set off a global disease surveillance system.
Members of a team from Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture took a swab from a duck during surveillance of the poultry section of the Orussey market in Phnom Penh this month.
A review of a limited number of cases of unresponsive patients with severe traumatic brain injuries raised questions about a custom of making a decision within 72 hours.
A new study found that 42 percent of those who had continued life support recovered enough in the next year to have some degree of independence. A few even returned to their former lives.
Dr. Hilary Cass published a landmark report that led to restrictions on youth gender care in Britain. U.S. health groups said it did not change their support of the care.
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