The endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty is a non-surgical alternative to make the stomach smaller in obese patients.

Mar. 3, 2025 — Obesity rates are set to skyrocket, with one in six children and adolescents worldwide forecast to be obese by 2050, according to a new study. But with significant increases ...

Cigarettes almost cost Tony Jackson, 63, his life as his vital kidney cancer op was almost abandoned midway though ... due to ...

Published to medical journal The Lancet, the study analyzed obesity trends in 204 countries total. They found that the number of obese individuals spiked globally from 929 million to 2.6 billion ...

Inappropriate payments? STAT’s John Wilkerson dives in. 1 in 6 young people will have obesity by 2050, analysis predicts 360 million. That’s the number of children and adolescents around the ...

Obesity is characterized by the accumulation of an excessive amount of fat mass (FM) in the adipose tissue, subcutaneous, or inside certain organs. The risk does not lie so much in the amount of fat ...

Scientists have pinpointed and described unusual subtypes of fat cells that may help scientists explain why gut fat is linked ...

The hormone insulin plays a key role in the development of obesity. Up until recently, there have been numerous signs indicating insulin causes neurodegenerative and metabolic disorders ...

A day after he urged people in his monthly Mann Ki Baat to combat obesity by reducing consumption of edible oil by 10%, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday nominated 10 public figures from ...

It’s often called the ‘mother of all diseases’ but perhaps not taken as seriously as it should be: obesity, now a crisis of epic proportions in India, needs tackling urgently and effectively.

Making small changes matters, Anand Mahindra said as he responded to Narendra Modi’s urge to fight rising cases of obesity in the country. "Help strengthen the fight against obesity and spread ...