Study finds reduced risk of cataracts associated with obesity surgery
New research presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (held online 10-13 May) has found a reduced risk of eye cataracts occurring in patients who...
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Study shows new obesity treatment semaglutide causes similar weight loss across different age groups
The STEP trials published over the past year have established the efficacy and safety of semaglutide in treating patients with obesity. A new study analysing the...
Semaglutide found to reduce body weight regardless of patient characteristics
New research presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (held online, 10-13 May) shows that treatment with the drug semaglutide reduces body weight in adults...
Preliminary data suggests mixing COVID-19 vaccine increases reactogenicity
Researchers running the University of Oxford-led Com-COV study—launched earlier this year to investigate alternating doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and the Pfizer vaccine—have today reported preliminary...
Measuring brain blood flow and activity with light
A new, noninvasive method for measuring brain blood flow with light has been developed by biomedical engineers and neurologists at the University of California, Davis, and...
Study finds that obesity drug semaglutide supresses appetite, food cravings and energy intake
New research presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (held online, 10-13 May) shows that the obesity drug semaglutide reduces appetite, food cravings and energy...
New experimental drug cagrilintide (AM833), when combined with emaglutide, shows potential for treatment of obesity
An early study of a new experimental drug to treat obesity known as cagrilintide shows that, when combined with semaglutide 2.4 mg, the combination leads to...
COVID-19 travel plan will let new variants into the UK, experts warn
The government’s COVID-19 travel plan will let new variants into the UK, warn experts in The BMJ today.
Delaying second COVID vaccine dose may prevent deaths under certain conditions
Delaying the second dose of COVID-19 vaccines, at least for people aged under 65, could result in up to 20% lower mortality, but only under certain...
World could have prevented COVID catastrophe: pandemic panel
The catastrophic scale of the COVID-19 pandemic could have been prevented, an independent global panel concluded Wednesday, but a “toxic cocktail” of dithering and poor coordination...
