AXIOS May 28, 2024
The relatively small number of health care providers trained in obesity care can hardly keep up with Americans’ demand for new weight-loss drugs.
Why it matters: Tens of thousands of U.S. patients each week are starting on treatments like Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy, but obesity medicine specialists worry there are still too few providers with enough specialized training to help patients who likely have to remain on the drugs long term.
- “There’s a lot of room for error in prescribing these medications,” said Sue Decotiis, an obesity medicine doctor in New York.
The big picture: It’s getting easier for patients who want the new class of drugs, known as GLP-1 agonists, to obtain them.
- There are...
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