A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked the federal government for $11 billion as a reimbursement for the border security measures he ...
Novo Nordisk shares rose sharply after the Danish pharmaceutical giant said an experimental weight-loss shot helped patients ...
A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.
Weight-loss medicines such as Ozempic might raise a person’s likelihood of developing conditions including arthritis.
A novel GLP-1 and amylin receptor agonist featured a safety profile similar to other incretin-based therapies and conferred a ...
An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.
The Lancet Commission has declared obesity a disease. With enough controversy to fill a buffet table, their new definition is ...
US-based pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is focusing on weight loss medications like Mounjaro (tirzepatide), which has proven ...
An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...
Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.