Body mass index (BMI) is the tool doctors use to calculate whether someone is underweight, at a healthy weight, overweight or obese. But because BMI calculations can't tell the difference between body ...

While these medications offer unprecedented health benefits, they come with challenges like cost, non-adherence and lack of ...

They further called for obesity to be grouped into two broad categories, depending on whether a person’s obesity is actively causing related health problems: preclinical and clinical obesity.

NAFLD is a condition where too much fat builds up in the liver cells, even though a person drinks little or no alcohol. It is ...

When it comes to healthy sleep, it’s not just how long a person is at rest that matters. Other factors, such as how long it ...

Fox News @ Night’ panelists Tom Kenney and Dr. Houman Hemmati discuss the defense secretary’s new initiative aimed at ...

Daily exposure to chemicals used for many plastic household items, could be linked to more than 356,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease worldwide in 2018, according to a study published on Tuesday.

Mar. 26, 2025 — A study finds that factors beyond a person's control, like socioeconomic status and whether their mom smoked or was obese, can influence whether they ... Mar. 13, 2025 — When ...

Alexandra Sifferlin, a health and science editor for Times Opinion, hosted a written conversation with the Opinion columnist ...

In the past 20 years, the average rate of obesity among adults in the United States has risen by approximately 30 percent, but the rate of those with ...

A new study published in Nature Mental Health has found that different patterns of body weight over time are tied to distinct ...