Kansas House Rep. Tim Johnson advocates for Medicare coverage of FDA-approved anti-obesity medications. Johnson argues that ...

This is to promote sustained weight loss for adults with obesity. Medicare covers IBT obesity counseling when a doctor or other healthcare professional administers the counseling in a primary care ...

Mehmet Oz will likely face questions during his confirmation hearing about his past support of expanding the Medicare ...

Colonel Jeffrey D. Glover and Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. The new FDA-approved weight loss medicines have changed the game for people with obesity, offering millions of Americans a chance to transform ...

In 2023, the United States marked a major milestone in the battle against a longstanding public health crisis: adult obesity rates dropped for the first time in a decade. Researchers pointed to GLP-1s ...

Most HHS workers were emailed an offer to leave their job for as much as $25,000 as part of President Trump’s government cuts ...

Novo Nordisk released the results from its late-stage trial of CagriSema on Monday. It showed that patients on the highest ...

Current health news highlights include Apollo Hospitals' AI investments to alleviate staff workload, Dr. Mehmet Oz's Medicare ...

Dr. Mehmet Oz is promising to fight health care fraud and push to make Americans healthier if he becomes the next leader of ...

Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Trump's nominee, emphasized the need to tackle high healthcare costs and obesity during his CMS ...

Doctors have called for extra funding to address the "epidemic of obesity". They argued that some very overweight people were reluctant to go to GPs to get their health problems addressed because ...

Illegal networks are flooding the market with counterfeit weight loss drugs, posing a serious threat to public health. The ...