Bariatric surgery may confer greater long-term weight loss than semaglutide or tirzepatide for adults with obesity, according to data from a real-world study published in Obesity.
Karan R. Chhabra, MD, MSc, assistant professor of surgery and population health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, said prior studies comparing weight loss with GLP-1 receptor agonists to bariatric surgery tend to be indirect comparisons or include older GLP-1s. Additionally, Chhabra said, weight loss in clinical trials for obesity drugs tends to be much higher than what health care professionals see from patients

Reproductive lifespans among women were associated with cognitive outcomes, according to a study presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.
“For at least a decade now, we’ve known that earlier age at menopause is associated with an increased risk of AD,” Pia Campagna, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher with the Weill Institute for Neurosciences at the University of California, San Francisco, said during her presentation.
Earlier menopause also has been associated with increases in Alzheimer’s disease pathology based on postmortem brain tissue and with white matter

The “primary” care physician — as suggested by the word — is designed and meant to be a first-contact health care professional.
This person should provide care that is continuous, comprehensive and coordinated with specialists. Primary care improves population health, contains health care costs and reduces health disparities.
PCPs focus on prevention, as well as the early detection, diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic diseases.
The primary care and lifestyle medicine connection is easy to see. This is ground zero for doctors and patients to co-design a health plan focused on the

To bring breakthroughs in food allergy to patients faster, Food Allergy Research & Education is providing up to $10 million in funding over 4 years through its Mind Meld Team Grant Program, according to a press release from the nonprofit.
Notably, this initiative focuses on funding research teams of individuals from different institutions and disciplines. The release outlined that Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) is focused on teams that use convergence science, a problem-solving approach that merges life science disciplines like clinical medicine and immunology with the

Improving trust in the health care system could have a significant impact on increasing HPV vaccination rates in the future.
A survey of nearly 4,000 people revealed that those with a lot of trust in physicians and health care agencies about cancer information had a significantly higher likelihood of being aware that HPV causes cervical cancer.
Additionally, those with high trust that religious organizations provide credible cancer information had significantly lower awareness.
“In the U.S., millions of people are not trusting government agencies and their physicians for information about

The newly proposed Medicare fee schedule for 2027 would cut physician pay by 1.68%, or 1.19% for those participating in qualifying alternative payment models, according to a fact sheet released by CMS.
The projected Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) for 2027, which CMS unveiled July 14, includes a conversion factor of $33.17 for physicians who participate in qualifying alternative payment models (APM), representing a decrease of $0.40 (–1.19%) from the current conversion factor of $33.57. Meanwhile, the nonqualifying APM conversion factor under the new rule would be $32.84, a