Is a Weight Loss Medication Right for You?
Many of us know the frustration of doing everything we can to eat healthy and exercise in order to lose weight but the scale doesn’t budge. Joining us today is Jeremy Byrd, MD, a pediatrician and internal medicine physician at Prisma Health, to explain when weight loss medication might be the right choice.

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