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@WIRED 11 months ago
With new discussions around appetite-inhibitor medicines like Ozempic, it’s an interesting time to be the new CEO of WW, a service that, despite its millions of satisfied subscribers, has hoards of critics calling its points-based system the epitome of unhealthy diet culture. 6/8 https://t.co/fYX7GVIBwy
@WIRED 11 months ago
With new discussions around appetite-inhibitor medicines like Ozempic, it’s an interesting time to be the new CEO of WW, a service that, despite its millions of satisfied subscribers, has hoards of critics calling its points-based system the epitome of unhealthy diet culture. 6/8 https://t.co/18YBq1r5gO
@WIRED 1 year ago
Experts fear that medicine may be at risk of losing a critically needed new drug because agricultural chemistry has once again deployed a similar compound first. https://wired.trib.al/oTaOXmr : Getty Images https://t.co/IIF0Gls3yK
@WIRED 1 year ago
New anti-obesity medications appear to be the miracle cure for obsesity but, then again, so did Bariatric surgery at one point... https://wired.trib.al/2NhEEpx : WIRED Staff // Getty https://t.co/2JQtjJbvdE
@WIRED 1 year ago
A new wave of medicines that treat obesity have been met with applause, concern, and abuse. Fat activists say they’re tools of coercion. Celebrities are taking them to get slim. Is this really the road people want to go down? https://www.wired.com/story/anti-obesity-drugs/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=wired&utm_social-type=owned : Getty https://t.co/jL7ha4OWWg
@WIRED 4 years ago
Craig Spencer, Director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine, New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center: “You’re notified of another really sick patient coming in. You rush over. They’re also extremely sick, vomiting. They need to be put on life support ...” 8/ https://t.co/Ic9S5iLVDQ