A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

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For patients with obesity, the holiday season often becomes a source of significant stress and anxiety. Festivals and ...

Former Trump administration health official Joe Grogan applauds Biden proposal that Medicare and Medicaid cover GLP-1 ...

Surgery is the gold standard, GLP-1s are all the rage—whether a head-to-head study is needed depends on who you ask.

Resolving to lose weight and improve health is consistently one of the top resolutions people make — and by far the hardest one to stick to.  The news and social media are full of conflicting ...

Smelly farts can result from multiple factors, but they're typically due to what you eat. Some instances can also indicate a medical condition.

There are racial and sex disparities in the discussion of and progression to metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) amo ...

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

By Dr. Joshua Steiner University of Kentucky It’s a new year, which means it is time once again to make those new year’s ...

Obesity guidelines for Indians stand revised after 15 years, the focus moving from BMI to abdominal fat. Here’s why the country needed this weight reality check ...

Until two years ago, such discussion was of little practical relevance, since there were few treatments for obesity between ...