Americans’ health has long been unequal, but a new study shows that the disparity between the life expectancies of different populations has nearly doubled since 2000.

The city laid out a series of proposals to reduce cancer deaths by 20 percent, and deaths from heart- and diabetes-related ...

The life expectancy of adults with attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is significantly shorter than that of ...

A global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by 75 medical organisations around the world, presents a novel, nuanced approach to diagnose obesity, based on other ...

Experts recommend reevaluating the diagnosis and treatment of obesity by moving beyond BMI to a more comprehensive health assessment. They propose classifying obesity into ‘clinical’ and ‘pre-clinical ...

But the report, published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Tuesday, suggested that having obesity according ... the risk of developing a life-altering disease such as diabetes ...

“don’t want to take responsibility” for obesity and lives cut short, says Dr. Ravi Sawhney, a former NIH researcher who studied Americans’ shortened life expectancy. Meanwhile, Trump ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment ...

MS isn’t a fatal condition in most cases, and most people with MS have a close-to-normal life expectancy. But since the disease varies so much from person to person, it can be difficult for ...

In 2024, slightly more than 1.0 million people died in Germany, according to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The number of deaths therefore decreased by 2.5%, or ...

After large drops during the pandemic, life expectancy in the United States should recover ... and a dietary culture that does not include vegetables; both promote obesity. Huggins also has seen ...

From the smallest trace elements to the largest building blocks, each piece of the puzzle is vital for creating and sustaining human life. So the next time you look at the periodic table ...