A major study published this week in PNAS brings surprising clarity to that question. Using objective data about metabolic ...

Obesity rates in children have been on the rise for decades, having quadrupled from 1990 to 2022, and along with the rise in ...

New research published Tuesday concludes that the rising rate of extreme childhood obesity—well above the usual BMI ...

An obesity drug from Hengrui Pharma and Kailera Therapeutics succeeded in a late-stage trial in China, while Anne Wojcicki's ...

It's common knowledge that obesity is a global epidemic, particularly in industrialized countries, and that it is a major ...

Pennington Biomedical researchers and their collaborators observed decreased activity in the brain regions responsible for ...

Cancer deaths linked to obesity more than tripled in the United States during the past two decades, a new study says.

The new study found that Midwestern states had the highest rates of obesity-linked cancer deaths, while the Northeast fared ...

New research reveals that people in rich and poor nations burn similar calories daily, pointing to diet as the real cause of ...

Biocon aims to launch generic copies of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy in India and Canada within the next two years ...

A new study reports that GLP-1 medications may improve low testosterone in men with obesity or type 2 diabetes. The findings ...

Rural, older, Black, and female Americans bear the brunt of the surge in obesity-related cancer mortality, new data show.