BMI is a measure of body weight relative to height. The goal for most people is to have a BMI that’s over 18 and under 25.

The GLP-1 drugs, produced by Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, have been credited with helping weight-loss, preventing diabetes and other positive effects.

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But does starting Ozempic really throw off birth control? “I'm not aware of any publications that actually report changes in pregnancy rates themselves,” says Jessica Skelley, a pharmacist at Samford ...

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A Northwestern University professor has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his historical studies on sustained economic growth through technological progress. Joel Mokyr, who has ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Henry Bienen, who served as president of Northwestern University from 1995 to 2009, has been named ...

STOCKHOLM -- Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies ...

While at the fall student organization fair her freshman year, SESP senior Jessica Sun came across an organization whose ...

When President Trump began his assault on higher education, freezing well over a billion dollars in research funding at leading universities, he implausibly claimed to be responding to campus ...