Obesity and type 2 diabetes are deeply interconnected. Yet, many diabetes prevention programs fail to adequately treat ...

Obesity is now linked to at least 13 types of cancer, making it one of the most preventable cancer risk factors in the United States.

A Yale study found that lowering parent stress can help protect young children from obesity. When parents practiced ...

Most childhood obesity programmes focus on food and physical activity. A new study suggests that parent stress should also be part of the picture. Researchers at Yale tested whether helping parents ...

New genetic research shows a simple genetic test can predict who’s most at risk for obesity, offering hope for early prevention, but also raises tough questions about genetic fairness and healthcare ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Medications known as glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists, or GLP-1s, ...

Prevention policies and budgets must be protected and aligned with the expansion of GLP-1 weight loss drugs, argue Kent Buse and colleagues The World Obesity Federation has welcomed the World Health ...

Medicaid/CHIP surveillance demonstrated an 11.4% relative rise in pediatric diabetes prevalence, including a 24.3% increase in type 2 diabetes, with disparities by geography, sex, and region.

This year on 4th March, the global health community will unite to raise awareness about the fact that there are numerous root ...

An estimated 36.2% of Michigan adults were obese in 2024, marking the state’s highest rate in more than a decade. U.S. prevalence of obesity was highest in the Midwest region. Michigan found itself ...

Waist circumference is an important measure of central obesity and metabolic risk and has recently been incorporated into the diagnosis of obesity. HKOS and over six hundred Hong Kong residents set a ...