Most doctors get little training in the science of obesity or how to counsel people with the disease. As a result, many patients experience stigma... Scant obesity training in medical school leaves ...

Gitanjali Srivastava, MD, professor of medicine, pediatrics & surgery, and the medical director of obesity medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, was nearly 10 ...

Here are six things to know about the current state of obesity training: 1. The approval of GLP-1 drugs has opened effective treatment for a disease that affects 40% of adults. Previously, treatment ...

“Because obesity is newly categorized as a disease, there isn’t a lot of material in curriculums in many medical schools across the country, so we are implementing 12 free education modules about the ...

San Antonio — Despite the prevalence of obesity in primary care, there appear to be major knowledge gaps among providers regarding obesity management, new research suggests. Anonymous surveys of 96 ...

Tong Yan grew up in a Chinese-American enclave of Los Angeles in a family that revered food, but thought little of those who carried excess weight. "Definitely there was like an implicit fattist kind ...

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