The European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) framework may offer a more sensitive measure of obesity than ...

New data from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Comprehensive Transplant Center shows obese patients with end stage kidney disease and diabetes can safely use weight loss injections to ...

Novo Nordisk NVO announced that it has submitted a regulatory application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) seeking ...

To improve access to care, many professional organizations have advocated for classifying obesity as a disease. However, the ...

Austin Public Health looks at 10 years worth of mortality data by disease, gender and race in new chronic disease report.

CVS Caremark will stop covering Eli Lilly's Zepbound, a weight loss drug, due to insurance company changes. Patients are outraged and concerned.

Obesity rates for Black children and adolescents are 22.4% in the decade before the pandemic and 35% in the 2 years after the ...

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate. Health professionals have long used body mass index as a quick screening tool to fast-track certain patients into a “code ...

Overweight/obese BMI (25 kg/m² or higher) was not associated with a statistically significant higher risk of death from any cause, compared with adults in the healthy BMI range (HR 1.25, 95% CI 0 ...

The National Center for Health Statistics measured adults and children to see weight, height and other size trends ...