April 16, 2024 — Right now GLP-1 medicines for obesity carry high list prices that engender great debates about how many billions (hyperbolists will say trillions) of dollars treating obesity will cost healthcare systems. For the uninitiated, it’s quite natural to think of metabolic procedures and obesity medicine in terms of either/or questions. No matter that this is a […]
May 20, 2021 — The big meeting of gastroenterology – DDW – happens online this weekend. It’s doesn’t typically offer a lot on obesity science and clinical care. But this year, the meeting has a fascinating peek at the potential for pairing endoscopy with semaglutide. News in advance of the meeting suggests this pairing might produce clinical results that […]
May 12, 2017 — People don’t like surgery. No matter how you put it, knives are scary. Even though data on the benefits of bariatric surgery could hardly be stronger, less than one percent of the people who could benefit actually choose to have bariatric surgery. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that new data on a nonsurgical gastric […]
