January 14, 2024 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #909, January 14, 2024: How health insurance company wanna-be-doctor bean counter’s medication-coverage decisions interfere with therapeutic management and has had a deleterious effect on (my) patients’ health outcomes.
January 3, 2024 Bariatric Medicine Could a vibrating, ingestible capsule help treat obesity? Not likely due to logistical, physiological, lifestyle factors, and whether animal models are transferable to humans.
June 28, 2023 Alternative Medicine TikTokers tout berberine as ‘nature’s Ozempic.’ There is little to no evidence to support this claim.
December 19, 2022 Bariatric Medicine Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials looks at efficacy of semaglutide (Ozempic) in treating people suffering with obesity
June 8, 2022 Bariatric Medicine Wegovy (semaglutide) approved by FDA to support people struggling to lose weight (and that includes many). Health Canada did so in November 2021. Major addition to weight-loss management options.
May 11, 2022 Bariatric Medicine Treatments for weight loss do exist, work well for many, and reveal our growing understanding of how our homeostatic, motivational, and executive brain centers interact with respect to weight control.
February 16, 2021 Bariatric Medicine NEJM publishes study evaluating the use of semaglutide to assist people with weight loss. Not “game-changing” but another positive step forward for evidenced-based treatment to help people with #Overweight or #Obesity.
February 14, 2021 Bariatric Medicine Not “game-changing” but another positive step forward for evidenced-based treatment to help people with #Overweight or #Obesity.
August 25, 2020 Bariatric Medicine #Obesity is a chronic brain- related disorder that can be successfully treated. Grave health consequences will continue until this concept is accepted, the blame game stops, and it is appropriately managed.
October 18, 2019 Bariatric Medicine Major limitations in a study that suggests weight loss later in life could be harmful. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This isn’t it.