There's an emerging debate around a popular class of anti-obesity drugs: whether patients who go on themcan ever expect to stop taking them.
Why it matters: The drugs represent an important shift in treating obesity as a chronic disease, but that has costly implications. Much of the tension around the drugs' long-term use is being driven by the insurers paying for them and clinicians who prescribe them.
Spending quality time with a newborn can shape new fathers' brains and have a lasting impact on their parenting instincts, new research shows.
Why it matters: The transitional period into parenthood is key for "building the fathering brain," researchers found, but the U.S. lags behind most of the rest of the world in its paternity leave policies.
Former President Trump revealed that he's "seriously looking at alternatives" to the Affordable Care Act, calling the failure to repeal and replace Obamacare during his administration "a low point for the Republican Party."
Why it matters: Ahead of last year's midterms, Republicans effectively gave up on campaigning to kill the ACA — acknowledging that the program was popular and fully embedded in the U.S. health care system.
