One of the world’s largest studies of Ozempic, Mounjaro and other blockbuster diabetes and obesity drugs highlighted their ...

Weight-loss medicines such as Ozempic might raise a person’s likelihood of developing conditions including arthritis.

Councils need more support from central government to help bring down childhood obesity rates, a local authority has said.

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

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Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

Knowsley has the highest proportion of obese and overweight 10 and 11 year olds in England, according to the NHS.

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...

Study shows diabetes drugs' potential beyond weight loss A new study highlighted Monday the potential benefits of popular diabetes drugs on a wide range of health issues including dementia and ...