Patients with obesity often report being shamed and stigmatized in medical settings. How can physicians address weight ...

Among the 2,225 adults in the study, all under 60 years of age, 39.7% had obesity as defined only by higher BMI, while 39.1% ...

Nearly all U.S. adults with obesity as diagnosed by BMI also have an elevated waist circumference or excess body fat, ...

Topline data were announced from a phase 3 trial evaluating setmelanotide for the treatment of acquired hypothalamic obesity.

In people with HIV taking antiretroviral therapy, excessive visceral abdominal fat drives cardiovascular disease risk, even ...

The CDC has laid off hundreds of employees, affecting little known parts of the agency that help keep people alive.

Trump rescinds Biden executive order on COVID-19 data collection, memo on LGBTQ rights Fierce Healthcare sifted through ... has received notice from the CDC that it intends to immediately end ...

The wide-reaching job cuts affected employees at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Food and Drug Administration, the CDC and more ... by Fierce Healthcare—stresses the ...

For the past decade, the body mass index formula has been used to deny or delay abortion care, despite researchers finding little evidence of increased adverse outcomes based on higher body weight ...

The effect was felt across the CDC, as workers in the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice (DEHSP), the Division of Population Health, the Division of HIV Prevention, the Division ...

The most commonly used scale that healthcare providers use to diagnose obesity ... BMI can be evaluated as part of a self-test for obesity screening by accessing the CDC's online tool for measuring ...