Wikipedia and the Weight Loss Drugs

Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, web-based, and openly editable encyclopedia maintained by a global community of volunteers. It’s hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia offers articles on various topics, ranging from celebrities and science to history and culture. It’s considered one of the most popular websites on the internet. There is a large amount of information on obesity, GLP-1s, […]

Most Favored Nation Drug Pricing Will Flop, but What Wouldn’t?

Politics Most Favored Nation Drug Pricing Will Flop, but What Wouldn’t? Pursuing the worthy goal of reforming drug pricing requires a more radical change to the pharmaceutical industry. On May 12, President Trump took a big swing at cutting drug prices, issuing an executive order requiring Most Favored Nation (MFN) pricing, resetting U.S. drug prices […]

An effective treatment using an effective care delivery model: Using telehealth to treat adolescents with obesity with GLP-1 medications

Will a telehealth model effectively engage adolescents with obesity and their parents to participate in their treatment plan? Do GLP-1 agonist medications work to improve weight status and reduce or eliminate comorbidities in adolescents? I’ve worked for over two decades as a community pediatrician to address the childhood and adolescent obesity epidemic. I can say […]

The Drivers of Age-Related Diseases

We’ve known that our immune system and the process of inflammation are tightly intertwined and are affected by aging. The terms immunosenescence and inflammaging have been coined to reflect that. In the past few weeks there have been a number of important publications that tell us much more about their pivotal role for influencing the […]