For commercial plans in the US, there will be an increasing pressure to follow Medicares lead and cover obesity more broadly, which will require careful evaluation of budget impact in the short- and long-term
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Most people hear about GLP-1 medications in the context of weight loss or type 2 diabetes
The induction was observed also in plants harboring a tetramer of the ocs element from the GSTF8 promoter, suggesting that this element helps to mediate the response (Perl-Treves et al., 2004)
Ken Fujioka, Department of Nutrition and Metabolic Research, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California, and a SCALE clinical trial investigator