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Better Care Models Needed for Young Adults With Obesity

Physician's Weekly

To broaden the understanding of treatment patterns, the researchers investigated the prevalence of obesity -related complications and the use of obesity medication among young patients in the United States. The data spanned from January 2019 to March 2024. In 2024, obesity medications were prescribed for 1.5% of young adults.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. At that point, he was referred to pulmonology who started the patient on albuterol, manual chest physiotherapy, and a steroid inhaler with a plan for a fourth chest x-ray four weeks later. What’s the Diagnosis?

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Ninth Circuit Upholds FDA’s Authority to Regulate Stem Cell Clinic Treatments

FDA Law Blog

Gonzalez — On September 27, 2024, in U.S. At the clinics, Defendants offer treatments that consist of extracting fat tissue from patients and, through a multi-step process, turning that tissue into a liquefied mixture of stem cells, other cells and cell debris known as Stromal Vascular Fraction (SVF). By Steven J. 21 U.S.C. §

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