How to Use anti-obesity in a Sentence

anti-obesity

adjective
  • These are key questions in the debate over the new anti-obesity drugs.
    Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, people have a wide range of responses to anti-obesity medicines.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 1 July 2024
  • Safety problems in the 1990s with the anti-obesity treatment known as fen-phen, which had to be withdrawn from the market, were also fresh in their minds.
    Amanda Seitz, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Weight Watchers) and Noom are now prescribing these anti-obesity meds as part of their weight loss programs.
    Lipi Roy, Md, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • And doctors say people shouldn't take these anti-obesity medications just to drop a few pounds.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
  • For type 2 diabetics, this is used for long-term weight management and is an anti-obesity drug.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Sharp said the program is collaborating with community health centers in the city and with Froedtert Health to get the word out about the anti-obesity program.
    Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2024
  • In 2003, Arkansas became the first state to send home BMI reports about all students as part of a broader anti-obesity initiative.
    Kavitha Cardoza, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Since Wegovy has only been on the market as an anti-obesity drug since 2021, there’s some uncertainty about its long-term effects.
    Sarah Sloat, Health, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The timing was of interest to those who are waiting to see if there’s any chance of popular anti-obesity drugs being included.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The paper showed that people taking the drug lost on average 15 percent of their body weight—a level of weight loss practically unheard-of for an anti-obesity medicine.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 7 July 2023
  • The first group was prescribed semaglutide, while the second was prescribed anti-obesity drugs that weren’t GLP-1 receptor agonists.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2024
  • In the 1990s, another popular anti-obesity medication known as fen-phen was sold en masse, but the FDA withdrew approval when doctors linked the drug to heart defects.
    Nina Baker, The Courier-Journal, 23 July 2024
  • Large pharma companies like Roche and Pfizer are also working on their own anti-obesity drugs.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Novo has struggled to keep up with soaring demand for the appetite-suppressing anti-obesity drug, and has limited the number of U.S. patients who can start treatment since May.
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Last year, the influential group added anti-obesity medications as part of its guidelines for treating obesity in kids ages 12 and up.
    Marina Kopf, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Watch to see how closely these disparities are reflected in who gets access to new anti-obesity treatments.
    Caitlin Owens, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
  • In other words, the more effective anti-obesity drugs become, the more insurance providers might realize their value.
    Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Aloe vera gel may have lipid-lowering and anti-obesity effects that may help people lose weight.14 Much of the research on aloe vera for fat loss is dated or mostly only in animals.
    Elizabeth Barnes, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Should Medicare cover the new generation of anti-obesity drugs?
    Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024
  • After all, Wall Street analysts are predicting as much as $100 billion in annual revenue to be made from anti-obesity medications in the next six years.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 10 July 2024
  • In 2021, Novo Nordisk received approval for Wegovy, which has the same active ingredient as Ozempic but comes with a higher maximum dose, as an anti-obesity drug.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Those whose commercial insurance doesn’t cover anti-obesity medications can get a $500 discount on the full price for Wegovy.
    Tami Luhby, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Novo Nordisk shares were on course for their best day in a month, climbing 3.08%, on news that its new experimental anti-obesity pill could be more effective than its existing Wegovy injection.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The American Academy of Pediatrics included anti-obesity drugs for the first time this year in its guidelines for treating childhood obesity.
    Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 19 July 2023
  • Arming more doctors and health professionals with the right tools for selecting the right anti-obesity therapies could finally turn the obesity curve around and bring more people to manageable, long-term weight control.
    Alice Park, Time, 30 June 2023
  • The European Medicines Agency started investigating the issue in July after reports of suicidal thoughts and self-harm from people who had been taking the anti-obesity drugs.
    Deirdre Hipwell, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Viking Therapeutics is developing both a weight loss injection and a pill while large pharma companies like Roche and Pfizer are also working on their own anti-obesity drugs.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The chances of your employer covering an anti-obesity drug depends on its size — bigger organizations are much more likely to offer the benefit than smaller ones.
    Tami Luhby, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Analysts believe the anti-obesity market is shaping up to be one of the most lucrative opportunities in the history of the pharmaceutical sector, potentially worth as much as $100 billion or more by the end of the decade.
    Robert Hart, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024

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