A small but rapidly growing number of U.S. adolescents began treatment with Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy last year, a powerful new tool to address record rates of pediatric obesity, according to data shared exclusively with Reuters.
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The company touts Penbraya as the first and only pentavalent vaccine that provides coverage against the most common serogroups causing meningococcal disease in adolescents and young adults 10 through 25 years of age.
The drugmaker stated that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use’s (CHMP) positive opinion was an “important recognition of the unmet medical need among adolescents living with obesity and the need for additional treatment options”.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on Monday recommended use of weight-loss drugs in children ages 12 years or older for treatment of obesity, which impacts about 14.4 million kids and adolescents in the United States and can lead to serious health complications.
An estimated 2.55 million U.S. middle and high school students reported using e-cigarettes during the early part of this year, health officials said on Thursday, a level they described as concerning.
Britain’s medicines regulator on Friday approved Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged between 12 and 17 years.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday signed off on the use of Novavax Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents aged 12 through 17.
