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Study Questions New Proposal to Redefine Obesity
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115178.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Virtually all individuals identified as having obesity based on body mass index (BMI) also had confirmed excess adiposity, according to an analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data. Among the...


Diabetes, Heart Disease Drugs Recalled; New Trump Order; Maple Syrup's Health Claims
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115144.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. MedPage Today is collecting stories of HHS staffers across all agencies affected by Trump administration cuts. If you want to share your story, please email MPT_Editorial...


Counterfeit Ozempic in U.S. Drug Supply; Oral GLP-1 Axed; Food Additives and T2D
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115132.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The FDA warned that several hundred units of counterfeit 1-mg semaglutide (Ozempic) were found in the U.S. drug supply chain and advised patients to check product lot and serial numbers. In other agency news, FDA cleared Dexcom...


Read the Results of Trump's 2025 Physical Exam
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115125.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- On April 11, 2025, President Donald J. Trump underwent his annual physical examination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. I performed and supervised the comprehensive exam, which included diagnostic and laboratory...


Vaccine Advisors to Meet; Donated Organs Left Unused; Counterfeit Ozempic Warning
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115123.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. MedPage Today is collecting stories of HHS staffers across all agencies affected by Trump administration cuts. If you want to share your story, please email MPT_Editorial...


States Advance Fetal Rights Measures That Critics Warn Could Lead to Abortion Bans
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115077.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A new Kansas law and a Florida bill outline policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves toward giving embryos and fetuses the same rights as the women carrying them. The Kansas Legislature...


Skyrocketing Cost of Obesity Drugs Has State Medicaid Programs Looking for Solutions
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115035.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- States increasingly struggling to cover the rising cost of popular GLP-1 receptor agonists like semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) are searching for ways to get out from under the budgetary squeeze...


Societies Decry HHS Obesity Med Decision; Diabetes-Autism Link; Ozempic ED Visits
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115017.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The Endocrine Society expressed disappointment over the Trump administration's decision not to implement a proposal that would have allowed Medicare and Medicaid to cover anti-obesity medications. Prior to Friday's decision...


Don't Forget Fertility: Medicaid Must Cover Iatrogenic Infertility
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115012.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Fertility preservation services optimize the potential for future reproduction, safeguarding this option for newly diagnosed cancer patients in an impossible bind: choosing between their health -- even their life -- and their...


Comorbidities in Midlife Tied to Cancer Risk
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115004.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Comorbidities in midlife were associated with a modestly higher risk of cancer overall and more strongly associated with a risk for multiple individual cancer types, according to a secondary analysis of the prospective Prostate...


RFK Jr.'s 'Very Scary' Moves; Honors for Weight-Loss Drug; Nurse Brain Tumor Cluster
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114988.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. MedPage Today is collecting stories of HHS staffers across all agencies affected by Trump administration cuts. If you want to share your story, please email MPT_Editorial...


Trump Administration Nixes Plan to Cover Anti-Obesity Drugs Through Medicare
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114985.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- President Donald Trump's administration has decided not to cover expensive, high-demand obesity treatments under the federal government's Medicare program. CMS said late Friday that it would not cover the medications under Medicare...


Switch to Tirzepatide in T2D More Effective Than Upping Dulaglutide Dose
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114983.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Diabetes patients on dulaglutide (Trulicity) had better glycemic control and more weight loss if they switched to tirzepatide (Mounjaro) rather than increasing the dose of the earlier-generation GLP-1 receptor agonist, an open...


CDC Cancer Team Fired; NIH Ordered to Study Transgender 'Regret'; AI May Help in OUD
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114963.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. MedPage Today is collecting stories of HHS staffers across all agencies affected by Trump administration cuts. If you want to share your story, please email MPT_Editorial...


15 Signs of Hypothyroidism You Can See
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114959.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, takes a look at visible signs of thyroid disease. Following is a partial transcript of the video (note that errors are possible): Deshauer: There's a small...


No Increased Diabetes Risk Post-COVID in Highly Vaccinated Group
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114944.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- There was no overall increased risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes after SARS-CoV-2 infection in a highly vaccinated and boosted Asian cohort when milder COVID-19 variants were predominant, a study in Singapore showed. Compared...


The Surgical 'Gold Standard' Fails Endometriosis Patients
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114934.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Bindi Irwin's endometriosis journey began like many others'. Eight years of nausea, pain, and fatigue met with dismissive doctors and no diagnosis. Her suffering isolated her from people outside of her family, stealing joy from...


Endocrine Society Condemns HHS Purge; Lilly Sues Compounders; Obesity Rising in T1D
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114918.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The Endocrine Society condemned the mass layoffs at HHS, arguing the move "threatens scientific progress that drives our economy and improves the public's health." Vertex Pharmaceuticals is throwing in the towel on its investigational...


GLP-1 Spending Hit $5.8 Billion in 2022 for U.S. Adults Without Diabetes
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114904.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The number of U.S. adults without diabetes using GLP-1 receptor agonists more than tripled from 2018 to 2022, boosting annual spending from $1.6 billion to $5.8 billion, survey data showed. Based on an unweighted sample of nearly...


Intermittent Fasting 3 Days a Week Tops Calorie Restriction for Weight Loss
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114902.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Three days of intermittent fasting (IMF) each week was a bit better for weight loss than daily caloric restriction (DCR), the DRIFT randomized trial found. Over 12 months, participants who restricted their energy intake by 80...


Boys With Cancer Can Face Infertility as Adults. Can Storing Their Stem Cells Help?
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114869.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- A man who battled childhood cancer has received the first known transplant of sperm-producing stem cells, in a study aimed at restoring the fertility of cancer's youngest survivors. Jaiwen Hsu was 11 when a leg injury turned...