The governor also said she would work with other states to leverage their combined purchasing power to reduce the cost of the ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and ...

Cancer researchers found that patients on GLP-1s had significant risk reductions for 10 of 13 obesity-associated cancers.

Obesity is typically assessed by measuring someone's body mass index, but now researchers are calling for a more nuanced ...

U.S. drugmaker Pfizer is going "all in" to develop its experimental obesity drug and has been recruiting more experts in that ...

A coalition of obesity-related patient advocacy groups is calling on the incoming Trump administration to finalize a proposal ...

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

A larger body doesn’t necessarily mean you have ‘clinical obesity’, according to a proposed new definition of the disease.

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...