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Are new weight loss drugs an answer or problem?

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Worldwide obesity rates have tripled since 1975, with 650 million adults obese in 2016, according to the World Health Organization. It has to persuade patients to sign up for some heinous side effects. Payers also face hurdles, so patients must obtain permission before filling a prescription.

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How Pharmacogenomics may finally realise its promise

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More than 60 percent of all American adults take prescription drugs , amounting to approximately 131 million individuals. In 2016, the estimated annual cost of drug-related morbidity and mortality resulting from non-optimised medication therapy was $528.4 billion in the United States alone.

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Digital Self-Neuromodulation Therapy for PTSD: Interview with Oded Kraft, CEO of GrayMatters Health

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These treatments at times come with a long list of side effects, leaving many patients in search of an effective long-term solution. For some patients with PTSD, psychotherapy may not be an effective option, they may find talking about their traumatic experience stress inducing, untherapeutic or ineffective.