Doctors should consider Ozempic-like drugs for children with obesity over 12: new guideline

For decades, the medical approach to treating obesity in children was the wait-and-see approach.

But a new Canadian guideline, nearly five years in the making and the first Canadian update in nearly 20 years, recommends that, in addition to advice on diet, exercise and other lifestyle changes, doctors consider offering some of today’s wildly popular weight-loss...