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A joint investigation by KFF Health News and NBC News found that cosmetic surgery chains have been the target of scores of ...

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The report, published in the Annals of Family Medicine in June, found that BMI is unreliable at predicting a person’s risk of ...

People in richer countries aren t moving less they re just eating more. A new Duke study shows that diet, not laziness, is fueling the obesity epidemic across industrialized nations.

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that your DNA may predict whether you’re likely to develop obesity—years before symptoms emerge.

The global prevalence of OA attributed to high BMI has steadily increased over the past 3 decades, particularly among women and in high-SDI regions.

Researchers at Jiangmen Central Hospital (China) investigated the association between red blood cell folate and visceral adipose tissue in young and middle-aged adults in the United States using ...

The first human-tested weight-loss drug that burns calories through creatine-based heat generation, without reducing appetite, has successfully completed its Phase I trial.

A groundbreaking study involving genetic data from over five million people has uncovered how our DNA can predict obesity ...

The world of prior authorization, and the hoops we need to jump through, has gotten just more and more ridiculous, bordering on the absurd, and I'm worried that things are about to get much worse.