It’s a brain disease,” a prominent obesity doctor explained on a “60 Minutes” episode about the drugs. “Obesity is disease” ...

Obesity is a disease characterized by having excessive body fat, increasing a person’s risk for many serious health problems, ...

Unfortunately, too many insurers — including Medicare — still see obesity as a cosmetic issue instead of the disease that it ...

Dr Mike McKean, vice president for policy at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said overweight children – which accounts for two in five primary school leavers – have a higher risk of ...

The World Health Organization has called on countries in South-East Asia Region to tackle the obesity crisis and its related ...

Australian researchers said that supervised diets with intermittent fasting were for children with serious health conditions, ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen have detected lipid biomarkers in children and teenagers with obesity that indicate an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, liver and heart ...

A new type of blood test using lipids could make it easier to identify children at risk of complications around obesity ...

BioAge Labs Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing therapies for obesity and metabolic disease, is seeking ...

Researchers at King's College London have developed a blood test that identifies lipid markers indicative of childhood ...

A mechanism for metabolic disease is traced to a defective cellular scaffolding that holds together the brain’s hunger cells.