A new study compares body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage and finds the latter is far more reliable in predicting ...

New research challenges everything we thought we knew about weight and longevity. Scientific evidence now shows that fitness ...

Clinicians who work with elite college athletes and military cadets should be aware of the association between higher body ...

The National Center for Health Statistics measured adults and children to see weight, height and other size trends ...

By exercising for just 150 minutes a week, people with prediabetes can prevent their condition from progressing to diabetes, ...

Ascletis Pharma has dosed the first obese or overweight subjects in the 13-week, multi-centre US Phase IIa trial of ASC30.

New rules are reshaping the telehealth market for GLP-1s like Ozempic and Wegovy, potentially impacting access to these drugs ...

Multimodal AOMs were associated with the highest preoperative weight loss among patients with high BMI undergoing bariatric surgery.

Waist-to-height ratio had a better predictive value than BMI in assessing liver fibrosis and steatosis outcomes across ages and racial groups.

Once-monthly maridebart cafraglutide resulted to significant weight loss at 1 year among adults with obesity, regardless of ...

Adults who make poor decisions about eight daily habits have a "significantly higher" risk of getting atrial fibrillation, ...