One explanation for the rise in obesity in industrialized countries is that people burn fewer calories than people in ...

Dr Reddy's Laboratories plans to launch a cheaper copycat version of Novo Nordisk's blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy in 87 ...

Scientists find that diet, especially ultraprocessed foods, has a greater impact on obesity than physical activity levels, ...

Nearly one in five American adults would be reclassified as having obesity under a new framework, a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis published in Annals of Internal Medicine showed.However, ...

More than 1% of U.S. children between the ages of 2 and 18 had “extremely severe obesity” in 2023 — a 250% increase from 2008 ...

In what is being hailed as a “groundbreaking achievement” for Uruguay and South America, a weight loss drug has successfully ...

Obesity increases the risk of nearly 200 diseases. A new genetic test may be able to predict a young child's risk of obesity in adulthood.

Scientists found that obesity may exist in 11 biological forms, each linked to different genes and body functions.

Researchers hope that a better understanding of which genes contribute to excess weight could help with prevention starting ...

A groundbreaking study involving genetic data from over five million people has uncovered how our DNA can predict obesity ...

For decades now, obesity has been defined by a number on a scale or where you land on the body mass index (BMI) measure. But ...