Castlight and Noom Join Forces to Tackle the GLP-1 Cost Crisis Through Integrated Digital Health

What You Should Know:  – Castlight Health and Noom have formed a strategic partnership to embed Noom’s preventive health and weight management programs directly into Castlight’s health navigation platform.  – The integration allows employers to purchase Noom through Castlight, granting employees seamless access to psychology-based care and GLP-1 medication management. The move is designed to […]

Health insurance premiums rose nearly 3x the rate of worker earnings over the past 25 years

Patients and employers are feeling the pain of increased health premiums. wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus Health insurance premiums in the U.S. significantly increased between 1999 and 2024, outpacing the rate of worker earnings by three times, according to our newly published research in the journal JAMA Network Open. Premiums can rise if the costs […]

Supplement trends: GLP-1 support, functional beverages, pet health and more

While a lot of attendees come to SupplySide Global to show off their latest innovations, for many, the main objective is to see the latest trends shaping the future of dietary supplements. Nextin Research, a new offering from MarketPlace which conducts surveys to gather insights aimed at connecting the dots between trends, innovation and market […]

Biotech Soars On Potential ‘Best-In-Class’ Obesity Drug – Investor’s Business Daily

Biotech Soars On Potential ‘Best-In-Class’ Obesity Drug  Investor’s Business Daily Structure’s Obesity Pill Delivers Weight-Loss ‘Homerun’ in Study  Bloomberg.com Structure reports promising weight loss outcomes with obesity drug, but side effect questions loom  statnews.com Structure Therapeutics Stock Jumps on Trial Results for Weight-Loss Pill  The Wall Street Journal Structure Therapeutics details positive trial data for a weight-loss pill, and […]

Her food cravings vanished on Mounjaro then roared back

Deep-brain recordings showed that Mounjaro and Zepbound briefly shut down the craving circuits linked to food noise in a patient with severe obesity. Her obsessive thoughts about food disappeared as the medication quieted the nucleus accumbens, the brain’s reward hub.