Behavioral intervention in obese adults

09/20/18 • 6 min

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The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force advises clinicians to refer or offer intensive behavioral weight-loss interventions to obese adults (http://bit.ly/2DbYO9F). Also today, stop treating gout and start curing it (http://bit.ly/2QIhaBO) the FDA has a new risk evaluation mitigation strategy for immediate-release opioids (http://bit.ly/2Df9AvY), and the United Nations aims to eradicate tuberculosis by the year 2030 (http://bit.ly/2DenEFN).

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