Browsing: Weight Loss

I am a lifelong Massachusetts resident. I remember our pride and celebration two decades ago when we became the first state to guarantee health insurance for almost everyone. In the years since, the commonwealth has prioritized closing health disparities in the spirit of that law, and our belief that each person has a right to…

A secret shopper survey conducted by researchers at Yale University and published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association offers an alarming, if unsurprising, glimpse into the world of telehealth purveyors of GLP-1 medicines. It confirms what doctors have worried about for years: The popular obesity drugs are being cavalierly prescribed. It…