Sara G. Miller is the health editor for NBC News, Health & Medical Unit.
Powerful weight loss medications aren’t reaching the people who need them most, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. The barriers to the drugs are many: Getting a prescription; finding a pharmacy with the drug in stock and being able to pay for it. “Obesity has been a long-standing clinical and public health change and it’s growing in scope,” said Dr.
“I’m a physician who focuses a lot on obesity and I can tell you, in terms of research and clinically, I can tell you that there’s often some who are not always the most adept at raising the conversation of obesity. As a result, it often goes underaddressed in clinical environments.” That, coupled with weight bias and weight stigma, he said, can impact how the topic of weight loss drugs may come up.
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