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  • At the AIIMS Obesity Summit, experts gave an insightful peek into the complexity of obesity as a disease and how to manage it in the era of GLP-1 medications.

  • The Humane Research Trust explains how obesity is more than excess body weight and requires research methods relevant to human biology .

  • Superluminal Medicines banked $60 million in funding to support development of a drug designed to work similarly to — but potentially more selectively than — Rhythm Pharmaceuticals’ marketed medicine .

  • Liver health improves more on a very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet than on a Mediterranean or very-low-fat plant-forward diet.

  • Experts have developed a new 25-minute tool to screen patients for over 30 possible causes of obesity, from genetics to psychological trauma.

  • By Jennifer Rigby, Ajeng Ulfiana, Stanley Widianto and Heru Asprihanto BOGOR, Indonesia, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Intan Permatasari's mother simply couldn't refuse her daughter's pleas for food.

  • Obesity doesn't look the same at age 15 as it does at age 45, and Duke University School of Medicine researchers are learning why.

  • Women who had a BMI trajectory for overweight or obesity during childhood are less likely to give birth beginning at age 25 years than women who had an average BMI trajectory, researchers reported in .

  • This review finds that obesity is linked to reciprocal interactions between diet, the gut microbiome, microbial metabolites, and host metabolic pathways that influence appetite, insulin sensitivity, .

  • Roche has decided to pay $190 million upfront for an unusual obesity mechanism after viewing preclinical data that “clearly suggests” the modality can reduce weight while preserving lean muscle, .

  • Lee Seong-bae, director of the Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Center at Incheon Sejong Hospital, said, "Patients with severe obesity often think, 'I don't have .

  • Bank of America is bucking the downward trend in employer-sponsored coverage of GLP-1s for weight loss by maintaining its comparatively generous policies.