{"id":8709,"date":"2025-11-28T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/28\/weight-loss-drugs-obesity-prevention-importance\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:03:08","slug":"weight-loss-drugs-obesity-prevention-importance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/28\/weight-loss-drugs-obesity-prevention-importance\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Public health should embrace GLP-1 drugs without abandoning obesity prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: Public health should embrace GLP-1 drugs without abandoning obesity prevention<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Following the White House\u2019s recent announcement of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/06\/trumprx-weight-loss-drug-discounts-wegovy-zepbound\/\">price reductions and expanded coverage<\/a> for GLP-1 medications like Wegovy and Zepbound, many patients searching for obesity treatments are about to gain access to highly effective options.<\/p>\n<p>The implications for U.S. public health are vast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/28\/weight-loss-drugs-obesity-prevention-importance\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Andrew C. Stokes<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/28\/weight-loss-drugs-obesity-prevention-importance\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: Public health should embrace GLP-1 drugs without abandoning obesity prevention Following the White House\u2019s recent announcement of price reductions and expanded coverage for GLP-1 medications like Wegovy and Zepbound, many patients searching for obesity treatments are about to gain access to highly effective options. The implications for U.S. public health are vast. Read the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2143,2282,2155,2648],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-8709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-opinion","category-obesity","category-pharmaceuticals","category-weight-loss","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}