A new study finds that three quarters of American adults and half of adolescents are too heavy. That's making more of us sick and creating enormous health care costs.

All things considered, it’s at least as likely to make health outcomes worse as it is to make most people healthier.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can help to rebuild the systems that promote unhealthy lifestyles in America. He deserves our support.

A brand new candidate for weight-loss treatment is on the table, with scientists uncovering for the first time how a hormone ...

The Office of Personnel Management's 2026 Federal Employees Health Benefits program roadmap focuses on cutting red tape for ...

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...

PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the 38th National Games in Dehradun, hailing the recent implementation of the Uniform Civil Code ...

Treatment with the highest dose of investigational injectable amycretin -- a unimolecular GLP-1 and amylin receptor agonist -- yielded a 22% weight loss after 36 weeks in a phase Ib/IIa trial, said ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the people of India to tackle obesity during the inauguration of the 38th National Games ...

The medical journal The Lancet recently published a detailed consensus statement classifying obesity as a disease. The ...

The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

A global commission presents a nuanced approach to defining clinical obesity as a chronic illness resulting from the effect of excess adiposity on organ and tissue function.