Shares of Viking Therapeutics VKTX gained more than 11% on Wednesday after the company announced that it had signed a broad ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study. Published in Obesity and Endocrinology, ...

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Nearly 60 percent of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless ...

Pfizer on Thursday named James List as the head of the drugmaker's Internal Medicine portfolio, where he will oversee the ...

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AbbVie will pay up to $2.2 billion to develop Danish drugmaker Gubra’s obesity drug. AI takes center stage at HIMSS ...

Obesity is a critical public health concern affecting millions worldwide. Yet, it is often oversimplified as an issue of ...

Without urgent policy reform and action, over half the world's adult population (3.8 billion) and a third of all children and ...