Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Kelly Grant
Publication Date: April 14, 2025 - 05:00
Doctors treating teens with obesity should consider weight-loss drugs and bariatric surgery, new guideline says
April 14, 2025
Doctors caring for young people with obesity should provide nutritional and exercise advice, but should also consider offering weight-loss drugs and bariatric surgery to teenagers, according to the first new Canadian guideline on the treatment of pediatric obesity in nearly 20 years.The clinical practice guideline, which provides advice to doctors on how to treat children with obesity, was published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. It features 10 recommendations, including one in favour of GLP-1 receptor agonists, the class of drugs that contains semaglutide, better known as the Type 2 diabetes medication Ozempic.
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OTTAWA — For some politicians, the grief takes time to set in.
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That’s the way it had been pretty much for 15 years in Parliament for the first woman elected to represent any riding in her southwestern Ontario city. And then, after a few hours of ballot counting,...
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