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Domenick Fini. A weight loss drug similar to Ozempic appeared to slow cognitive decline in patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease, new research presented Tuesday at the Alzheimer’s Association ...
There’s been a lot of talk about potential side effects from using medications to lose weight, including taking Ozempic, a type 2 diabetes medication that’s used off-label for weight loss ...
Pfizer announced on Dec. 1 that it was discontinuing phase 3 clinical trials of the twice-daily version due to high rates of adverse side effects. While these were mostly mild, a large percentage ...
Intentional weight loss is the loss of total body mass as a result of efforts to improve fitness and health, or to change appearance through slimming. Weight loss is the main treatment for obesity, [1] [2] [3] and there is substantial evidence this can prevent progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes with a 7–10% weight loss and manage cardiometabolic health for diabetic people with a ...
Eye care professionals use prism correction as a component of some eyeglass prescriptions. A lens which includes some amount of prism correction will displace the viewed image horizontally, vertically, or a combination of both directions. The most common application for this is the treatment of strabismus.
Fenfluramine as a single drug was first introduced in the 1970s, but was not popular because it only temporarily reduced weight. [1] A 1984 study found a weight loss of 7.5 kg on average in 24 weeks, as compared to 4.4 kg under placebo. [4] It sold modestly until the 1990s, when it was combined with phentermine and heavily marketed. [1]
Researchers are curious about other possible side effects and benefits of semaglutide, which led to the University of Oxford team examining the medical records of people taking the medication ...
Corrective lens. A corrective lens is a transmissive optical device that is worn on the eye to improve visual perception. The most common use is to treat refractive errors: myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism, and presbyopia. Glasses or "spectacles" are worn on the face a short distance in front of the eye.