New obesity treatment guideline could improve insurance coverage for weight …

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While prescription weight-loss drugs and bariatric weight-loss surgeries are endorsed by the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology as effective treatments in these guidelines, doctors are advised to offer these options only …
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Cardiologists recommend wider use of statin drugs

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The new approach, presented Tuesday by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Assn., represents a stark shift from the way doctors have prescribed the popular drugs for most of the last decade. Physicians who have focused on reducing …
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Prescription medicine overdose epidemic takes a deadly turn across US

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Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention note that drug poisoning has increased by more than 300 percent over the last three decades, mainly from unintentional overdoses of narcotics, hallucinogens and other drugs. According to …
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