When the issue is obesity, the questions are many, and the routes to answers anything but straight. What is abundantly clear ...

Medicare to negotiate prices for Ozempic, Wegovy, and 13 other drugs, potentially saving billions for taxpayers.

Despite the staggering impact of obesity on the Black community, columnist Justice B. Hill argues that the issue has been ...

A new report shows that cancer cases are increasing in females in the United States and in younger adults. For the first time ...

Cancer deaths overall are falling, but the burden is shifting toward younger adults and women, the American Cancer Society ...

Although a comparable proportion of Black and non-Black patients discussed surgical weight loss with their provider (9.5% vs ...

Definition Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a more severe and long-lasting condition in which GER causes repeated symptoms that are bothersome or leads to complications over time. If you ...

The cancer death rate declined by more than one-third over a three-decade period in the United States, though incidence rates ...

Obesity is linked to many common diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease and knee ...

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

A new study by Mass General Brigham investigators shows persistent racial disparities and growing sex disparities between patients who discussed and received weight loss surgery between 2000 and 2020.

The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...