The Trump administration has promised that addressing childhood obesity will be a key part of its “Make America Healthy Again ...

It is rare indeed for Philip Bump to take stock of a sudden pronouncement from President Donald Trump and say, “Yes … more .” ...

If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Trump administration want to make America healthy again, they should let Medicare cover ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help most,” said Dr. David Cummings, an obesity expert at the University of ...

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present framework, ...

The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon thanks to a new set of standards.

But Dr. David Cummings, a commission member and an obesity expert at the University of Washington, suggested they could be restricted to patients diagnosed with clinical obesity. That group’s ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index ... Wen is an emergency physician and adjunct associate professor at George Washington University. She previously was ...

Eli Lilly expects to read out results from a study in people with obesity and osteoarthritis of the knee in 2025.

an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal. People with clinical obesity meet BMI and other ...

Recently, an international commission proposed a revised definition of obesity that focuses on how ... and adjunct associate professor at George Washington University. She previously was Baltimore ...