Just over 40% of Americans are obese based on their BMIs, and that number has been on the rise since the mid-1970s. But a few new statistics suggest that the obesity rate is now plateauing, or even ...

New data showed childhood obesity has hit a record high in recent years, while federal changes such as cuts to food assistance programs and a revamped food pyramid reignite debates over how to handle ...

A disturbing statistic revealing the dismal state of health in America is that more than 40 percent of the population is obese (defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having a ...

This week, Mad in America examines three studies around mental health diagnosis, psychotropic drug use, obesity, and diabetes ...

The number of Americans living with obesity is expected to rise by 19 million and affect nearly 126 million people by 2035, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And as we said, it’s streaming live now — or no, it’s streaming now on Apple TV. We turn next to a health crisis in the United States. A new Biden ...

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The Biden administration released a proposed rule allowing Medicare prescription drug plans to cover medicines for obesity, the future of which has been left to the in-coming Trump Administration.

A coalition of Hispanic health and public policy organizations is pushing for New Mexico’s Medicaid program to broaden its coverage of weight loss drugs as treatment for obesity. The policy change, ...

The 2013 declaration of obesity as a chronic disease and the 2021 approval of semaglutide are associated with increased use ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new study found that nearly three quarters of adults in the U.S. are affected by obesity or overweight. That study, reported in the medical journal The Lancet, found that by 2050, ...

Form Health , the national leader in science-based obesity and cardiometabolic care, today announced it has joined Eli Lilly and Company's new Lilly Employer Connect platform, helping employers expand ...