The percentage of U.S. adults with obesity did not significantly rise from 2013 to 2023, though a small uptick in the rate of ...

How can we best treat infectious diseases in people with obesity? Hospital pharmacist and Ph.D. researcher Koen van Rhee ...

Congressional District faces significant health challenges, with obesity at 40.4%, diabetes at 12.3% and high blood pressure at 37%. Life expectancy is 75.9 years, below the U.S. average of 78.7 years ...

Allowing such medications as options could lead to significant savings from improved health, writes Kelley Koch.

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity. The global team’s recommendations were published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Jan. 14. Body mass index ...

BMI is a widely used tool for assessing obesity, but it has limitations. It doesn't account for muscle mass, fat distribution or bone density. Experts suggest using it alongside other measures for ...

A new international study led by scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has characterized the populations of fat ...

An obesity medicine physician writes that weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic have been getting a bad rap, almost as if those ...

Major heart health risk factors like obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure remain on the rise in the United States, according to an annual report from the American Heart Association. These ...

Scientists mapped fat tissue differences in obese individuals, uncovering cell changes linked to metabolic disease risk and ...

Next-generation obesity drugs will work differently from Ozempic and Wegovy — aiming to deliver greater weight loss with ...

Jan. 27, 2025 — A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future ... Signposting Children to ...