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 ...

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

Women are now being diagnosed with cancer more often than men in certain age groups, according to a new report from the ...

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 ...

There’s been a ton of research around intermittent fasting over the past few years, but the latest evidence suggests that it ...

The American public is being sold a bill of goods that enrolling everyone in government-approved health insurance -- ...

How GLP-1 therapies could help build a healthier, more productive workforce—and what that would mean for how we live together ...

In 2021, in the United States, nearly half of teenagers and three-quarters of adults were clinically considered overweight or obese, representing 208 million people. Back in 1990 ... for instance, ...

The area also has a concerning obesity rate of 34 per ... a slightly different score for people with a South Asian, Chinese, other Asian, Middle Eastern, Black African or African-Caribbean family ...

a lack of green space and chronic underinvestment in BIPOC communities all play a part in making our Black and Brown neighbors more likely to wrestle with serious chronic diseases like obesity and ...