WeightWatchers, a digital weight loss and management company, has launched a new program to support those taking GLP-1 medications. In addition, WeightWatchers Clinic is now available and gives access to a care team and…
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Chronic metabolic diseases like obesity and diabetes are one of the main drivers of high healthcare costs and poor health outcomes in the U.S. The CDC estimates that obesity alone costs the country’s healthcare…
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Direct-to-consumer telemedicine platform Hims & Hers launched a new weight loss program Monday that offers weight loss medications, educational content and digital tracking tools.
San Francisco-based Hims & Hers is a health and wellness platform…
Digital care management platform Sidekick Health announced it acquired Hamburg-based aidhere, a prescription digital therapeutic for people with obesity. Sidekick develops personalized digital therapeutics and programs for chronic and lifestyle disease management, ranging from diabetes…
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Noom, a digital solution that supports weight loss, is now expanding its services for employers to include Noom Med, a clinical obesity management solution. The company made this announcement Monday at HLTH 2023 in…
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Musculoskeletal care is a critical service line in healthcare. More than 50% of the adult population in the U.S. has some form of MSK condition, and the impact on people’s lives is significant.THE PROBLEM
Pain…
A long and deeply-reported feature story in The Washington Post on Tuesday put a spotlight on the stark effect that an epidemic of chronic illness is taking on too many millions of Americans.”Forty years…
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GLP-1s — which lower blood sugar to help people lose weight — are taking the healthcare industry by storm and have several implications for digital health companies. This includes headwinds for established nutrition programs…
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By Shania Kennedy
October 02, 2023 – Researchers at the University of Buffalo (UB) have demonstrated that a tool originally designed to predict a patient’s risk level for various addictions using genetic and psychosocial factors can…
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What You Should Know:
– Phenomix Sciences, a precision medicine biotechnology company that brings data-driven precision medicine to obesity treatment, announced it has been awarded the first patent related to its obesity phenotyping technology.
– The…
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