Fiji 2025 STEPS Survey shows that nearly two out of every three families are affected by NCDs, with cardiac events and diabetes-related complications increasingly claiming lives of people aged 35 and ...

Scientists from University College London (UCL) have found that obese people have a 70% higher risk of hospitalization or ...

A study in The Lancet reveals obesity raises severe infection risk by 70%. Linked to 1 in 10 global infection deaths in 2023, it highlights a dual health burden for rising economies like India.

More than one in 10 infection-related adult deaths worldwide may be attributed to obesity, a team led by University of ...

MASLD/MASH represents a growing clinical and economic burden, with MASH conferring heightened risks of advanced fibrosis, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and liver-related mortality. Noninvasive ...

The FDA is expected to decide on treatments for acquired hypothalamic obesity, dry eye disease, primary biliary cholangitis, psoriatic arthritis, and severe leukocyte adhesion deficiency-I.

Excess body fat impairs immune responses, promotes chronic inflammation, and restricts lung expansion. As a result, infections become more frequent, more severe, and slower to resolve, Dr Bhasker ...

A prospective multicohort study suggested that obesity was associated with a higher risk of severe and fatal infections. Obesity was most strongly linked to skin and soft tissue infections and showed ...

The U.S. health secretary’s motivation for ending childhood obesity apparently rests on military recruitment. Speaking at a Heritage Foundation event Monday morning, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that ...

Just over one in 10 deaths from a wide range of infectious diseases are associated with obesity worldwide, finds a major new study led by a UCL researcher.

President Trump claims he had no knowledge about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. Records of a 2006 call to the FBI say otherwise.

Individuals with obesity may have a reduced incidence of specific in-hospital or post-injury adverse events, consistent with the proposed obesity paradox among neurotrauma populations.