What Comes After Zepbound? New Weight-Loss Drugs Are Already Being Studied
Zepbound changed expectations about what medical weight loss could accomplish. But pharmaceutical research has not stopped there. Researchers are already studying the next generation of obesity medications, including combinations designed to work on multiple appetite and metabolic pathways at the same time. One experimental combination recently produced average weight loss of more than 20% in […]
Flu, COVID or RSV? When Should You Get Tested?
You wake up with a sore throat. By lunchtime you’re coughing. That evening you have chills and a fever. So what is it? Flu? COVID? RSV? A common cold? The frustrating answer is that symptoms alone often cannot reliably tell you. Flu, COVID-19 and RSV can all cause overlapping symptoms, including: So when should you […]
You Stopped Adding Salt. Why Is Your Blood Pressure Still High?
You’ve stopped salting your food. You don’t keep a saltshaker on the dinner table. You may even buy products labeled “healthy.” So why is your blood pressure still running high? Because for most Americans, the saltshaker is not the biggest source of sodium. Much of the sodium you eat is already in packaged, processed and […]
Health After 65: Your Doctor Should Be Asking About More Than Your Lab Results
After 65, healthcare can start getting complicated. One doctor manages your heart. Another checks your joints. Someone else prescribed your sleep medication. Then there is your blood pressure pill, cholesterol medication, vitamins and whatever you picked up over the counter for your allergies. Meanwhile, nobody has asked the question that may matter most: How are […]
Can You Lose Weight on a GLP-1 Without Losing Muscle?
If you’re taking a GLP-1 medication and the number on the scale is finally moving, that’s good news. But there’s another number worth paying attention to: how much of the weight you’re losing is actually fat. Medications such as semaglutide and tirzepatide can produce substantial weight loss. But significant weight loss, whether it comes from […]
Weight Loss Pills vs Injections: Are Oral Weight-Loss Medications Finally Catching Up?
For years, one of the first questions patients asked about medical weight loss was: “Do I have to give myself a shot?” Increasingly, the answer is no. Weekly injectable medications such as semaglutide and tirzepatide transformed obesity treatment. Now oral medications are becoming a much more important part of the conversation. In fact, oral semaglutide, […]
Why Does Everybody Seem Sick Right Now? The August 2026 Respiratory Virus Update
Everybody seems to know somebody who’s sick right now. A coworker has a cough that won’t quit. Your kid came home from school congested three days into the year. Someone else has a sore throat. Then your spouse wakes up with body aches and no energy, and you start running through the list: is the […]
Were We Wrong About Hormone Replacement Therapy? What the New Evidence Really Says
For the better part of two decades, women asking about hormone replacement therapy got a version of the same answer: hormones are risky, and you probably shouldn’t. Breast cancer. Heart attacks. Strokes. Blood clots. Dementia. Prescriptions collapsed, a generation of physicians grew reluctant to write them, and millions of women went through menopause without ever […]
Should People With Type 2 Diabetes Use a Continuous Glucose Monitor Even If They Don’t Take Insulin?
For a long time, continuous glucose monitors were understood to be devices for people with Type 1 diabetes, or for people with Type 2 who take insulin. That logic held up fine. If you’re injecting insulin several times a day, the difference between a glucose of 75 and 275 changes what you do in the […]
Do You Really Need the Full Dose of a GLP-1?
If you’re on a GLP-1 for weight loss, you were probably handed a schedule that reads like a staircase. Start low. Wait four weeks. Go up. Wait four more. Go up again. Keep climbing until you hit the “full dose.” Laid out that way, it’s easy to assume the whole point of treatment is to […]