Obesity has been a persistent public health concern in the U.S. and globally, with 1 in every 8 people in the world living ...

WeightWatchers said on Tuesday it would offer compounded form of Novo Nordisk's popular obesity drug Wegovy as part of its ...

Consumption of UPFs increased body weight and energy intake in overweight and obese young men, found a small study ...

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

The report shows a rise in medication use, obesity, and smoking, a decline in cancer screenings, concerns over excessive ...

Expanding coverage of weight-loss drugs like blockbusters from Eli Lilly & Co. and Novo Nordisk A/S would make 12.5 million ...

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

Rivus Pharmaceuticals Inc., a drug developer focused on obesity treatments, is considering a US initial public offering as ...

Readers discuss an essay about whether it is a disease and how it should be diagnosed. Also: Fear in schools; natural ...

At least 1 in 5 adults in each U.S. state live with obesity, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Newly released data shows that the U.S. may have reached peak obesity in 2020 — and the timing unsurprisingly coincides with ...

"Americans are fat and getting fatter," wrote Reason's Ron Bailey in a March 2023 piece about obesity and the hope such ...