The obesity diagnosis has always been controversial. Now, a new clinical definition is raising even more questions.

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Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much ...

A new screening intervention in the primary care setting can improve the identification and management of obesity risk in pediatric patients, according to a poster presented at the National ...

Two recent documents—one from the FDA, the other from a commission organized by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology—indicate ...

Novo Nordisk stock slumps as the 15.7% weight loss achieved with its next-gen obesity candidate, CagriSema, in the second ...

On World Obesity Day, THE WEEK speaks to Dr Nanda Rajaneesh, General and Laproscopic Surgeon, Apollo Spectra Hospital, ...

Nearly 40% of consumers classified as overweight or obese under traditional body mass index (BMI) definitions would no longer carry that diagnosis under newly proposed criteria recently published ...

Research published in Nature determined why obese individuals who lose weight tend to regain the weight over time. Here's how ...

Why some health groups are banding together to push for a range of obesity-care options in workplace-sponsored insurance.