Nearly 40,000 people have signed a petition from the Alliance for Women’s Health and Prevention’s EveryBODY Covered Campaign urging employers to recognize obesity as a chronic condition and expand comprehensive coverage.
Insurers are cutting coverage for costly GLP-1 weight loss drugs, sparking backlash from advocates who say they're vital for treating obesity.
Alan Murray on improving access for medical transportation.
Healthcare and benefits leaders must step up to provide menopausal women with the full-spectrum care they need to protect musculoskeletal and metabolic health for lifelong strength and well-being.
The Trump administration is not finalizing a Biden-era provision that would expand coverage of anti-obesity drugs under Medicare and Medicaid, which has disappointed some healthcare leaders.
In a webinar last week, BuildMyHealth CEO and Co-founder Dr. Jonathan Kaplan shared how physician practices not only can access the weight loss drug by working with compounding pharmacies, but also use BuildMyHealth to provide this drug to their own patients who are suitable candidates for the drug.
Obesity is a disease, and America’s healthcare providers and hospital systems must be part of changing how we treat it. That means many of us in the health ecosystem must reexamine how we view patients with excess weight.
CEO and neuroscientist Dr. Iftach Dolev on how the new device can bring a powerful tool to psychiatrists and neurologists alike.
The company's shares were down more than 40 percent in midday trading as the FDA placed a clinical hold on ZGN-1061, the second such hold the company has experienced in three years.
"Our tools are designed to work alongside existing programs to make human interactions more productive," said Michael Fergusson, Ayogo's founder and CEO.
Norwest Venture Partners led the funding round. It also added two new investors in the funding round — GE Ventures and dRx Capital.
ReShape Medical's alternative to bariatric surgery with a procedure that inserts two balloons into an obese person's stomach has raised $38 million to commercialize the technology.
Across the nation, state-based health insurance exchanges are searching for ways to better serve their communities while making enrollment easier, more personal, and more accessible for everyone.
When it comes to childhood obesity, who is to blame?
Healthcare professionals also fall victim to the Big Mac temptation at times, but some are going to be cut off - at least while they're at work.
If research indicated that obese people need not change their diet drastically as long as they exercise, would you believe it? What about if you knew the findings were funded by Coca-Cola?
Approximately 6.5 million Americans are affected by advanced non-healing wounds each year.
Because of the high rates of obesity in the UK, doctors are proposing a 20 percent tax on sugary drinks similar to the soda tax in Mexico in efforts to dissuade people from buying these drinks.