{"id":672,"date":"2024-06-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sshop.me\/?p=672"},"modified":"2024-06-28T10:53:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T10:53:29","slug":"journalists-talk-cost-of-weight-loss-drugs-and-lack-of-obesity-doctors-to-manage-their-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sshop.me\/index.php\/2024\/06\/01\/journalists-talk-cost-of-weight-loss-drugs-and-lack-of-obesity-doctors-to-manage-their-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Talk Cost of Weight Loss Drugs and Lack of Obesity Doctors to Manage Their Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam discussed weight loss drugs on KMOX\u2019s \u201cTotal Information AM\u201d on May 29.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/podcast\/total-information-am-2922c\/episodes\/popular-weight-loss-diabetes-medications-are-expensive-and-sometimes-unavailable-20d24\">Click here to hear Rayasam on \u201cTotal Information AM\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read Rayasam\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/high-prices-ozempic-mounjaro-wegovy-glp1s\/\">High Price of Popular Diabetes Drugs Deprives Low-Income People of Effective Treatment<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>C\u00e9line Gounder, KFF Health News\u2019 senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health, discussed whether enough doctors are trained in obesity medicine on CBS News\u2019 \u201cCBS Morning News\u201d on May 29.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/are-enough-doctors-trained-on-obesity-medicine\/?ftag=CNM-00-10abc0d#x\">Click here to watch Gounder on \u201cCBS Morning News\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She also discussed the third confirmed case of bird flu in the United States \u2014 the first with respiratory symptoms \u2014 on \u201cCBS Mornings\u201d on May 31.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3NVddp2UFq4\">Click here to watch Gounder on \u201cCBS Mornings\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Noam N. Levey discussed how cancer patients face high medical debt on KCBS on May 28.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/podcast\/kcbs-radio-on-demand-011f4\/episodes\/cancer-breaks-the-bank-not-just-the-body-9102f\">Click here to hear Levey on KCBS<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read Levey\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/in-america-cancer-patients-endure-debt-on-top-of-disease\/\">In America, Cancer Patients Endure Debt on Top of Disease<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>KFF Health News contributor Andy Miller discussed the drop in applications to medical residency programs in Georgia on WUGA\u2019s \u201cThe Georgia Health Report\u201d on May 24.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuga.org\/show\/wuga-health-desk\/2024-05-24\/the-georgia-health-report-decrease-in-medical-residencies\">Click here to hear Miller on \u201cThe Georgia Health Report\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read Julie Rovner and Rachana Pradhan\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/medical-students-residents-spurning-abortion-ban-states\/\">Medical Residents Are Increasingly Avoiding States With Abortion Restrictions<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/medicaid-deloitte-run-eligibility-systems-plagued-by-errors\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam discussed weight loss drugs on KMOX\u2019s \u201cTotal Information AM\u201d on May 29. Click here to hear Rayasam on \u201cTotal Information AM\u201d Read Rayasam\u2019s \u201cHigh Price of Popular Diabetes Drugs Deprives Low-Income People of Effective Treatment\u201d C\u00e9line Gounder, KFF Health News\u2019 senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health, discussed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sshop.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sshop.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sshop.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sshop.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sshop.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sshop.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"http:\/\/sshop.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sshop.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sshop.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sshop.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sshop.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}