According to a September 2024 data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40.3 percent of U.S.

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

Childhood obesity is on the rise and is becoming an epidemic in our country and worldwide. The consequences of childhood ...

Where you store fat, as opposed to how much you have, may be a bigger risk factor for colon cancer, a study published in JAMA ...

CDC officials say they extended the guidance now because they are seeing more H5N1 patients whose illness they cannot track back to an infected bird or cow.

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

Obesity at cancer diagnosis appeared linked to significantly poorer survival among children and adolescents, according to ...

While medical experts continue to search for a cure, prevention and early detection to facilitate timely treatment can help ...

Outside the United States, more than 950 cases of H5N1 bird flu have been reported to the World Health Organization; about ...

In Karnataka, HMPV cases involved two infants, a three-month-old girl and an eight-month-old boy, who were both admitted to Baptist Hospital in Bengaluru.

BMI has traditionally been used to measure health but can be misleading, particularly for athletes. A recent study suggests ...