It might be cutting up a grape, avoiding kids and horses or settling for a 1956 Morris Minor instead of a flashy car. Doctors see…
Patients with higher levels of intra-abdominal visceral fat are less likely to achieve improvements from biologic treatments for inflammatory bowel disease, a US study shows.…
A young woman in the US was urged to swear off snacking on sunflowers seeds after it led to a painful and “exceedingly rare” case…
Doctors come from different backgrounds, and we all start medical school with various life experiences. I’m an emergency medicine specialist, but I actually started off…
A US charity for patients with eating disorders has been forced to shut down a chatbot called ‘Tessa’ after it told people to cut their…
Semaglutide and other drugs are capturing the public’s imagination with the prospect of off-label pharmaceutical cures for obesity. The idea that regular injections are the solution…
Another attempt to capture doctors’ personality traits and their impact on clinical outcomes has found medics are significantly more agreeable than their patients, but also…
Websites advertising prescriptions for weight loss drugs via an online quiz are on the TGA’s radar for advertising medications through social media and online ads. …
Dulaglutide could help motivate patients to quit smoking and avoid early relapse, say Swiss doctors who found the drug counteracts “expected” post-cessation weight gain. Their…
A GP is battling a proposed 24-hour McDonald’s next to his practice, saying doctors will have to compete with the “smell of burgers and fries”…
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