Individuals struggling with obesity face a number of social and health difficulties, but those problems are less severe if ...

Researchers collected archival data on more than 3.4 million people living in the United States and United Kingdom. They found evidence that obesity tends to spur lighter medical and psychological ...

Following the Mediterranean diet may modestly lower children's risk of gaining excessive weight, but the impact was not ...

Weight loss drugs like Ozempic were associated with a lower risk of suicidal thoughts in teens with obesity, a new study found.

Achieving weight loss within a year of initiating orlistat can reduce the risk for both incident gout and recurrent gout ...

A team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Hong Kong University (HKU) has ...

About 74% of adult Americans are overweight or obese, and obesity leads to about $480 billion in extra medical care costs, ...

The UK Government has signed a collaboration agreement with Lilly, the pharmaceutical giant behind weight loss medication ...

They found evidence that obesity tends to spur lighter medical and psychological harms when those who struggle with the disorder feel less conspicuous. "For me, this means that at least some of ...

Researchers have unveiled a novel approach to tackle obesity by targeting fat absorption in the small intestine. The ...

Allowing Medicare to cover anti-obesity medications would drive up federal spending by about $35 billion on net between 2026 and 2034, according to ...