Every year, more than 100,000 people are treated for heat injury in the U.S., a number that's been rising as the world ...

A serial entrepreneur and a promising drug emerge from failed companies to pursue subsets of obesity patients, with or ...

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

Researchers found an independent association between increased intermuscular fat, not BMI, and major CV events and coronary ...

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.

Right now, patients with obesity and cirrhosis have few treatments for their progressive liver disease, but a new study ...

What is Cushing's syndrome? Cushing's syndrome is a hormonal disorder. It’s caused when you have high levels of the hormone cortisol over a long time. Cushing's syndrome is fairly rare. It most often ...

The commercialisation of junk food, increase in inactive lifestyles with prolonged sitting, and high stress environments, ...

A global commission of experts has called for a radical shift in how obesity is diagnosed, with less reliance on body mass index (BMI) to define disease. The commission, published in Lancet Diabetes ...

People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the condition is diagnosed. Academics have suggested that a body mass ...

A Lancet Commission has redefined obesity by classifying it as either ... with hepatic fibrosis), reproductive (polycystic ovary syndrome, hypogonadism), and metabolism (hyperglycemia ...

This guideline covers the prevention and management of overweight, obesity and central adiposity in children, young people and adults. It brings together and updates all NICE's previous guidelines on ...