Alice Park

2 days ago | yahoo.com | Alice Park

Credit - Douglas Sacha—Getty ImagesAs more doctors and patients turn to the latest weight-loss drugs, researchers are trying to figure out which drug is right for which patient—and at what point in their weight-loss journey. Key to making those decisions is how effective the drugs are and which side effects people might experience while taking them. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the European Congress on Obesity provides some of those answers.

6 days ago | time.com | Alice Park

So far, 2025 has been a terrible year for global health. The Trump Administration is slashing funding to a number of international programs; closing down USAID, the government’s major aid development arm; and withdrawing U.S. membership from the World Health Organization.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Alice Park

Bill Gates at The 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony held at Barker Hanger on April 5, 2025 in Santa Monica, Calif. Credit - Gilbert Flores/Variety—Getty ImagesSo far, 2025 has been a terrible year for global health. The Trump Administration is slashing funding to a number of international programs; closing down USAID, the government’s major aid development arm; and withdrawing U.S. membership from the World Health Organization.

6 days ago | time.com | Alice Park

With obesity medications like Wegovy and Zepbound dominating social media and conversations in doctors’ offices, you might think that doctors at least have a good idea about what obesity is. But there really isn’t a conclusive definition of the condition, with some clinicians maintaining it’s a chronic disease, like high blood pressure or diabetes, while others say it’s not a disease itself, but a risk factor for other diseases.

6 days ago | time.com | Alice Park

As a surgeon at the Duke Cancer Institute, Dr. Shelley Hwang is trained to perform the most delicate yet common procedure for treating breast cancer: removing tumors, and often much of the breast itself, to give women the best chance of avoiding recurrence and having the cancer spread to other parts of the body. But with better screening and detection of the disease, she became uncomfortable with the drastic approach for some of her patients.