Every year, the government weighs and measures children in Reception (ages 4-5) and Year 6 (ages 10-11). The National Child ...

Hims stock jumped late Monday after the online pharmacy beat expectations, helped by Hims & Hers' weight-loss drug.

SAN ANTONIO -- Infants whose families received ongoing text message-based health behavior counseling in addition to clinic-based counseling showed healthier weight trajectories than those whose ...

Most never do. Why is Zepbound so successful? Several reasons. First, obesity is a severe crisis, especially in the U.S., ...

The study reveals a dose-response relationship between BMI and PASC risk in children, highlighting obesity as a key factor in post-COVID health challenges.

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO) is pioneering a new wave of medical treatment for diabetes and obesity ...

pggb builds pangenome variation graphs from a set of input sequences. A pangenome variation graph is a kind of generic multiple sequence alignment. It lets us understand any kind of sequence variation ...

Overweight and obesity both describe conditions of excessive body fat that presents a risk to health. 2 Excessive fat deposits increase our risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers, and ...

According to the CDC, as of August 2023, 40.3 percent of U.S. adults—some 100 million people—met the clinical definition for obesity. But this same estimate, which is based on National Health ...

University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science professor Nikolaos Sidiropoulos has introduced a breakthrough in graph mining with the development of a new computational algorithm.

List of countries by obesity rate: Overweight and obesity, resulting from excessive fat accumulation, have become significant health concerns today, with global adult obesity having more than doubled ...

New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided insight into the prevalence of obesity across the United States. The figures, initially from the 2023 Adult ...