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Degree of Weight Loss Affects Tirzepatide-Linked Cardiometabolic Risk Improvement

Physician's Weekly

Bruno Linetzky, M.D., The researchers found that participants who lost at least 35 percent of their body weight from baseline to week 72 had mean changes of up to –14.2 mm Hg for systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively, –32.4 cm for waist circumference, –59.7 percentage point for hemoglobin A1c.

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NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

Physician's Weekly

She called the NIH news “a complicated mix of emotions,” CNN said. “We These funds would be a lifeline for many families who are still grappling with health concerns and some economic hardship,” she said. But experts say it can be hard to link cancers directly to the chemicals from the crash.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

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We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . But hospitalizations are low.