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Rowena Roque, 46, was having a problem that many people can relate to: doing everything in her power to lose weight and get healthy but never succeeding.From fad diets to two-hour workouts, there isn’t a diet or workout regimen that Roque didn’t try....

Good Morning America recently interviewed Amanda Velazquez, MD, director of Obesity Medicine in the Department of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai, about whether increasingly popular semaglutide or tirzepatide—medications that treat Type 2 diabetes and obesit...

CBS News recently interviewed internist Amanda Velazquez, MD, director of Obesity Medicine in the Department of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai, about a type of diabetes medication that also might help with weight loss. High demand for the medicine has cause...

CBS 2 recently interviewed Amanda Velazquez, MD, director of Obesity Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, about the negative effects of unhealthy food offered in a new program that provides free meals to students in California.   The Universal School Meals Prog...

Women between 40 and 60 years old are the focus of new national guidelines aimed at preventing unhealthy weight gain that can lead to serious illness. The study review paper and clinical guidelines are published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.“Mo...

La nueva directora de Medicina de la Obesidad en el Departamento de Cirugía de Cedars-Sinai, Dra. Amanda Velazquez, está decidida a ayudar a prevenir y tratar la diabetes tipo 2 y la obesidad en la comunidad latina."Nuestra comunidad se ve afectada d...

Cedars-Sinai’s new director of Obesity Medicine in the Department of Surgery, Amanda Velazquez, MD, is determined to help prevent and treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity in the Latinx community."Our community is disproportionally affected by both condi...