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 ...

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

Statistics from 2023 on U.S. obesity rates reveal that in every U.S. state, one in every five people now has obesity, ...

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

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 ...

Rates of obesity are highest in the Midwest and South, according to the CDC's latest report — but the entire U.S. is what one ...

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

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 ...

About 40% of Louisiana adults are obese, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.