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Ozempic for life? Weight loss drugs are meant to be used long term. What happens if you stop taking them?
Those who have used new obesity drugs like Wegovy to lose weight and improve health are wondering what happens if ...
Treating diseases in the womb: In medical first, doctors treat Pompe disease before birth
A toddler is thriving after doctors in the U.S. and Canada used a novel technique to treat her before she ...
COVID pills: Pandemic kick-started long-neglected effort to develop potent antiviral treatments for coronaviruses
Antivirals are already essential treatments for other viral infections, including hepatitis C and HIV. One of the best known is ...
A daily pill to treat COVID could be just months away, scientists say
Within a day of testing positive for covid-19 in June, Miranda Kelly was sick enough to be scared. At 44, ...
‘Give me whatever’: Republican governors and vaccine hesitators who question safety and effectiveness of ‘medically proven’ shots embrace unproven antibody therapies
[A]fter she fell ill with covid last month, [Joelle Ruppert, an unvaccinated] Florida preschool teacher, found herself desperate to try ...
Is the US underestimating COVID reinfection risks?
As millions of Americans struggle to recover from covid and millions more scramble for the protection offered by vaccines, U.S ...
Prepare for some unpleasant side effects from COVID-19 shots
Data from early trials of several COVID-19 vaccines suggests that consumers will need to be prepared for side effects that, ...
‘Humans often do dumb things’: ‘Unsettling similarities’ between responses to COVID-19 and the flea-driven 14th century black death
The flea-driven plague, also known as the “Great Mortality,” overran Eurasia and North Africa from 1347 to 1353, killing tens ...
How to make $2000: Volunteer to get a COVID-19 test vaccine
During the next two months, vaccine makers hope to recruit 60,000 Americans to roll up their sleeves to test the ...
US employers turning to pricey and unproven COVID-19 antibody testing
Across America, untold numbers of employers, employees and ordinary citizens are turning to a slew of sometimes pricey new COVID-19 ...
Frequent errors with popular dementia test prompt review, new training requirements
Dr. Ronny Jackson, then the White House physician, gave Donald Trump a standard test to detect early signs of dementia ...
Trump brain test inspires creation of online version for consumers
Weeks after [President] Trump posted his perfect [Montreal Cognitive Assessment] score (30/30), the researchers started working on a new tool, ...
After repeated health code violations, Seattle Chipotle restaurant closed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Seattle health officials closed ...
Washington, Oregon investigating massive food poisoning outbreak at Chipotle
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. All Chipotle restaurants in ...