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

Not necessarily — but it’s complicated. For years, body size was considered a barrier to most sports, but today that’s ...

By 2050, over half of the adults and one third of the youth may be obese. Experts have called for urgent action to prevent obesity from becoming the global norm.

“By identifying individuals in a preclinical obesity phase, where they are not yet classified as obese but are showing signs of metabolic dysregulation, there is an opportunity for earlier ...

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

Join Drs Steven Feldman and Robert Kushner as they discuss the role of dermatologists in treating obesity in conjunction with psoriasis.

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 ...

Both semaglutide and tirzepatide would need big price cuts to be seen as a good buy for the US healthcare system.

The way we think about obesity is changing. A new definition and diagnostic framework for obesity has been put forward in a commission published by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, recognizing ...

On World Obesity Day, THE WEEK speaks to Dr Nanda Rajaneesh, General and Laproscopic Surgeon, Apollo Spectra Hospital, Bengaluru on finding ways to tackle the disease ...