Prices are falling for the popular obesity treatments Wegovy and Zepbound, but steady access to the drugs remains challenging ...

Some new medications in development are also trying to solve for a persistent side effect of existing drugs: Patients who ...

Discover how smoking during pregnancy may increase childhood obesity risk, according to new research from Washington State ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other measurements, such as waist ...

But Dr. David Cummings, a commission member and an obesity expert at the University of Washington, suggested they could be restricted to patients diagnosed with clinical obesity. That group’s ...

When a team of scientists led by a Washington State University researcher examined the way that more than 9,400 children grew ...

Ozempic and Mounjaro may also lower your risk of obesity-linked cancer. A study found another potential benefit of the weight loss drugs: lowered risk of chronic conditions.

"Obesity is at a crisis point throughout the USA, with every state challenged to some degree," said co-author Affiliate Associate Professor Marie Ng from IHME, University of Washington, USA.

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help most,” said Dr. David Cummings, an obesity expert at the University ...

Obesity is estimated to affect more than 1 billion people worldwide.In the U.S., about 40% of adults have obesity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.