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

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

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

“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 ...

To make the new forecasts, researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington created a model to determine overweight and obesity trends using historic ...

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

Experts have called for urgent action to prevent obesity from becoming the global norm. By 2050, ... (IHME), University of Washington in Seattle, United States, ...

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.

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 ...