Obesity, a complex health issue, isn't solely due to inactivity, a study in PNAS reveals. Researchers found similar calorie ...

For decades now, obesity has been defined by a number on a scale or where you land on the body mass index (BMI) measure. But ...

Researchers hope that a better understanding of which genes contribute to excess weight could help with prevention starting ...

Scientists find that diet, especially ultraprocessed foods, has a greater impact on obesity than physical activity levels, ...

People in richer countries aren’t moving less — they’re just eating more. A new Duke study shows that diet, not laziness, is ...

More than 1% of U.S. children between the ages of 2 and 18 had “extremely severe obesity” in 2023 — a 250% increase from 2008 ...

It turns out that obesity may be much more complicated than we thought, with the condition potentially existing in up to 11 ...

Scientists have identified early-life genetic markers that can predict a child's risk of obesity, paving the way for ...

In the first part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Hyung Heon Kim, CEO of MetaVia, describes the US payer ecosystem’s ...

India’s growing obesity epidemic, especially among youth, poses a major public health risk. Here’s why preventive healthcare ...

Shipra Patel, global therapeutic area section head, endocrinology, global head, pediatrics, Parexel, discusses the importance ...