by Lisa Jarvis This year, the incredible potential of obesity medicines like Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Zepbound started to come into view. The drugs work so well for so many that it’s starting to look like they could change the literal and metaphorical ...
by Tadd Haynes As president of UniCare West Virginia, a leading health care provider in the state, I take it as our responsibility to help drive health care innovation in our state. Last month, a group of key health, community and elected leaders met to collaborate on how we can improve ...
West Virginia has a weight problem. Forty-one percent of state residents are clinically obese, which is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of greater than 30 (18.5 to 24.9 is considered normal). And West Virginians are not alone. The national obesity rate has increased 37% since ...
by Jennifer Brown There’s a reason we say that West Virginia is “Almost Heaven.” Our state’s wild and wonderful mountains and hollows are what make it special, and it’s why so many people are proud to call it home. As we all know, living in a place as mountainous as West ...
by Shira Fischer More than 75,000 nurses, nursing assistants, technicians, pharmacists and other health care workers at Kaiser Permanente went on strike in California and beyond this week. Their unions say it’s the largest health care strike in recent U.S. history. It is indeed ...
by Jamie DeMarco and Vincent DeMarco The numbers are in. The Inflation Reduction Act has, in fact, helped to reduce inflation. The most recent numbers from the Federal Reserve show year-over-year inflation standing at just 3%. When the Inflation Reduction Act was passed one year ago, ...