Roche has acquired rights to an obesity therapy by Denmark's Zealand Pharma in a collaboration deal worth up to $5.3 billion, ...

Kids are more likely to maintain a healthy weight if their parents adopt a responsive style while they're babies and toddlers ...

Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much ...

Dogs are a good model for studying human obesity because they develop obesity through similar environmental influences as ...

Obesity is a common risk factor for high blood pressure, type-2 diabetes and heart disease. These conditions can contribute ...

Germany's financial markets watchdog is looking at whether Bayer fairly disclosed plans for shareholder approval of a capital ...

A gene linked to obesity in Labradors is the same one found in humans, scientists say. The discovery could help researchers ...

Rates of obesity and overweight are spiralling due to a "monumental societal failure" to tackle the problem, with more than ...

China’s obesity crisis is a sizeable profit opportunity. More than half of Chinese adults are overweight or obese — a figure expected to hit two-thirds by 2030. That is nearly 900mn people, a market ...

New trial data showed the drug helped obese or overweight type 2 diabetics lose an average 15.7% of their weight, when an ...

A study from the University of Cambridge has uncovered a genetic link between Labrador retrievers and humans that sheds new ...

Efecan Kultur, a popular TikTok mukbang star, has died at 24 due to obesity-related issues. His death raises awareness about ...