When Gloria Kopp got fed up with diet after diet that just didn’t work, she took the advice of a friend who’d slimmed down with a commercial diet plan called the Medi-Weightloss Program. This weight ...

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California just cut off access to critical anti-obesity drugs for hundreds of thousands of patients. Under the new budget signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Medi-Cal — the state’s Medicaid program — would ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Popular weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy would no longer be covered by Medi-Cal under a proposal unveiled by Gov.

This weight loss plan, which features medical supervision and a tailored approach to weight loss, helped Kopp lose 30 pounds in six months. Losing the weight gradually gave her the confidence to keep ...