Given that Cignas own leadership frames its internal policy change as driven by the exact same set of challenges facing its clients, this downtick may signal a more widespread pullback in employer-sponsored GLP-1 weight-loss coverage across the industry, not just within Cignas own client base
As the WL achieved with the novel obesity pharmacotherapies approaches that of bariatric surgery, we will need to assess whether long-term complications observed after bariatric surgery such as increased risk of osteoporosis, fractures, macro- and micronutrient deficiencies as well as self-harm behaviours will also be present with pharmacotherapy [112, 113]
In many cases, studies show participants lost between 15% and 22% of their total body weight over time
This approach allows organizations to prioritize the most relevant questions earlier in the evidence generation process, reduce exploratory dead ends, and ensure downstream research is grounded in how care is evolving today
Neoplasia 13 , 131145 (2008)
They noted that the intact skull bone was porous enough to allow small molecules to get through to the brain and saw how smaller molecules were able to reach the brain faster and to a greater extent than larger ones