Obesit Y News Today

>> our thanks to wxyz for that. hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. im fredericka witfield. we begin with this breaking news on the manhunt undway under way cleveland texas for the suspect accused of the shootings of five including an 8-year-old. ryan young isle toing all of this for us. what more are we learning about the suspect? >> troubling details on this. weve been following this for hours. weve been given a name. francisco orpeza is the name police...

Benefits. payroll. compliance. trinet. people matter. the research shows a drug used to regulate blood sugar can also help with weight loss in diabetes patients. its called truzepitide. more than 900 adults with obesity and diabetes took the injectable drug for more than a year. those who received the highest dose lost an average of about 34 pounds, or about 16% of their starting weight. the data has not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal. eli lily says it will use the f ...

Disease. if they were to use the terp t for weight loss, should patients be concerned about a potential of a shortage? >> i get five to six calls ever. this drug is for patients with a bmi of 27 or higher or have an obesity-related issue, so, yes, we should not abuse this drug. it is for that patient that is morbidly obese that needs to get on this medication, and then there are also side effects potentially that are well tolerated, nausea and vomiting. im telling you, fred, im excited to be a p...

Drug or would it cover this drug? >> thats the real issue, and i really would like insurance companies to change their mindset of obesity. it is a chronic medical disease and we need to treat it like high blood pressure and diabetes. currently for obesity related medications, it can cost over $1,000 a month, so its going to be really difficult -- >> thats expensive. >> yes, its very expensive. so im hoping that insurance companies will realize that we need to help patients treat obesity just lik...