Researchers from the CDC and Colorado School of Public Health estimate that seven major pathogens caused 9.9 million ...

What is obesity? Here's what you need to know about the disease expected to impact 50% of adults worldwide by 2050.

If you believed everything you read on social media, you’d think HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had issued a sweeping ...

New research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that having an overweight or obesity trajectory during childhood is associated with ...

Mar. 3, 2025 — Obesity rates are set to skyrocket, with one in six children and adolescents worldwide forecast to be obese by 2050, according to a new study. But with significant increases ...

Body size and excess weight, conventionally assessed using body mass index (BMI), are well-established risk factors for many types of cancer. However, new research to be presented at this year’s ...

WalletHub released a new analysis ranking America's most overweight cities, based on obesity rates, health consequences and ...

Dialysis Centers used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to examine the prevalence of chronic diseases ...

Oklahoma City ranks 12th among the nation's most overweight cities, with one of the highest adult obesity rates, despite past ...

UD researchers discover that differences in gene expression in fat could be the key to targeted obesity treatment. According ...

President Donald Trump’s pick for CMS administrator told the Senate Finance Committee that America is struggling with soaring health care costs and higher obesity rates than other countries.

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