Posts Tagged ‘social context’

In “Bring Me Bimagrumab” for the London Review of Books, Liam Shaw offers more than a book review and more than a story of an experimental drug. He uses the history of insulin, GLP-1s, and bimagrumab to pose a provocative question. What happens when a transformative therapy reshapes both medicine and society? Where does the […]

Much research goes into understanding how our environment prompts relentlessly rising problems with obesity – with good reason. Much of that research focuses on the substance of the food itself. The characteristics of ultra-processed food is a favorite topic right now. So we find delight in recent research that focuses instead on the broader context […]