Obesity is increasingly referred to as a chronic disease. This is also how it is defined in the recommendations of scientific ...

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity are metabolic conditions with many causes, including overlapping and distinct genetic ...

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

I consider myself a healthy person. I eat plenty of fruit and veg, am obsessed with fibre, rock climb twice a week and try to squeeze in a lunchtime jog on the days I don’t. But when I recently ...

There’s no such thing as an ideal weight, but there are many ways to determine if your body is in a healthy zone.

Obesity is now linked to at least 13 types of cancer, making it one of the most preventable cancer risk factors in the United States.

A public health expert examines how 'The Pitt' portrays obesity with clinical dignity—and what real-world medicine often misses about weight bias and patient safety.

Individuals with obesity (BMI ≥30.0) demonstrated a significantly lower incidence of several acute complications following traumatic brain injury, including cardiac arrest, acute kidney injury, and ...

Obesity is a major public health crisis in the UK, with around two-thirds of adults (64-65%) being overweight or obese, and nearly 3 in 10 adults (around 29%) living with obesity. Obesity costs the UK ...

A novel metabolic obesity assessment tool (metBMI) improves upon conventional BMI by capturing a wide array of metabolic factors that underlie obesity risks, including complex adiposity-related ...

Viking Therapeutics VKTX announced that it has completed enrolling patients in its exploratory maintenance dosing study of VK2735, the company's dual agonist of the GLP-1 and GIP receptors. VKTX is ...