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Shutterstock (2) A medication approved to treat type 2 diabetes may help people with obesity lose 10 to 15 percent of their body weight — an amount that healthcare professionals say could help reduce the risk for serious chronic illnesses. Semaglutide, sold under the brand names Ozempic and Rybelsus, helped most people with obesity in a clinical trial lose at least 10 percent of their body weight, and more than half of them reduced their weight by at least 15 percent, according to the study r...

iStock; Everyday Health Rheumatology helps cement that hypothesis of a connection between endometriosis — a condition in which endometrial-like tissue grows outside the uterus on other organs, such as the ovaries, fallopian tubes, bowel, and outside walls of the uterus — and one of those autoimmune diseases, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic inflammatory disease of the joints. RELATED: Women With Endometriosis Had an Increased Rate of Developing RA, Other Autoimmune Diseases Researchers...

iStock; Everyday Health Pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD) patients are significantly more likely to have depression, anxiety, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than children without the condition, according to new research. “We know from previous data that there’s a higher prevalence of these conditions in adolescents and adults with CHD, but before this, there hadn’t been any data in children,” says principal investigator Keila Lopez, MD, a pediatric cardiologi...