In the News
In the News
Recent medical news in plain language, with links to the original reporting.
Millions of Surgery Records Raise New Questions About GLP-1 Drugs Opens in a new tab.
In records from more than 2 million elective surgeries, people already taking a GLP-1 medicine had slightly lower rates of serious heart complications and infections afterward. The study cannot show the drugs caused that difference, and it does not answer whether to stop them before an operation.
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