ABC aired a special from Oprah Winfrey last night about how new GLP-1 drugs are helping patients and changing the perception of obesity as a disease rather than a failure of willpower, giving even more exposure to Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Zepbound. Read the full article here.
Currently more than 50 per cent of women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer at an advanced stage when fewer treatment options are available. A specialist medical tampon could be used to help diagnose ovarian cancer earlier, researchers believe.
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A clinical trial into puberty blockers for children has been paused after the medicines regulator warned it should have a minimum age limit of 14 because of the “unquantified risk” of “long-term biological harms”.
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