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

For the first time in over a decade, obesity rates have dropped in the United States. A recent study by the CDC showed that ...

Obesity prevalence in the United States declined for the first time in a decade, according to a research letter published in ...

Form Health, the leading provider of science-based obesity care in the United States, announced a new program to prevent ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people ...

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...

Understanding the definition of obesity: experts examine the limitations of body-mass index (BMI) and propose alternative measures for adiposity.

The FDA has designed five different types of labels, each presenting the same information but with different specifications based on the size of the packaging.

How GLP-1 therapies could help build a healthier, more productive workforce—and what that would mean for how we live together ...

Over her three-decade career, weight management physician Dr. Sarah Ro has seen hundreds of patients. Many of them are on ...