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 ...

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology published its Commission on the definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity.

A study by Mass General Brigham investigators shows persistent racial disparities and growing sex disparities between ...