Chair of RACGP Specific Interests Obesity Management, GP and dietitian Dr Terri-Lynne South says she is pleased the TGA has issued an alert and is raising awareness of a growing number of scams, some of which have been brought to her attention by her own patients
Since 2019, the National Poison Data System has fielded a nearly 1,500% increase in calls related to overdoses or side effects from injectable weight loss drugs
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People who undergo gastric bypass and gastric sleeve surgery, two very common procedures, tend to lose about 50-60% of their excess weight on average
This implies that Satb2-positive cells, including goblet cells, absorptive cells, and enteroendocrine cells, might be involved in the regeneration of the colonic mucosa