“The only thing she practices is grift”: Meet Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General

Medical experts fear President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Casey Means, could bring her “flaky” brand of wellness influencing to the nation. Means is best known as a wellness influencer, author and entrepreneur, as well as running a company that sells glucose monitoring systems. While Means did attend medical school, she dropped out during […]

Ozempic, Wegovy Might Lower Colon Cancer Risk

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 7, 2026 — Ozempic and Wegovy might help people avoid colon cancer as well as promote weight loss or control diabetes, a new study says.People who took a GLP-1 drug were 36% less likely to get colon cancer than people who took a…

Obesity rings in New Year with Lilly-Nimbus $1.3B deal, RNAi data

Biopharma industry zeal for obesity therapeutics does not appear to be dying down any time soon, with Eli Lilly and Co. entering a $1.3 billion deal with Nimbus Therapeutics LLC for a new small molecule, and Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. rolling out phase I/IIa data of its RNAi therapeutics used in combination with Lilly’s GLP-1/GIP receptor […]

GLP-1 Use Linked to Lower Colon Cancer Risk vs Aspirin

(MedPage Today) — SAN FRANCISCO — Patients with a history of GLP-1 receptor agonist treatment had a significantly lower risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC) as compared with those who took aspirin, according to a retrospective study reported…