Pharmacy leaders have issued a warning over the online sale of weight-loss jabs insisting there is still a risk to patient ...

Researchers at the, Riverside, backed by a substantial NIH grant, are pioneering a study on the unique immune responses to ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks. Major public ...

Ozempic and Wegovy do the same thing as GLP-1 would normally do for you — but to enable them to treat diabetes and obesity, ...

The author of a new guidebook on GLP-1s and other experts share their tips for how clinicians can optimize patient success ...

There are vaccines for everything from flu to polio, but what about obesity? Researchers say it could be on the horizon, after testing shows promise in lab mice. Reporter Jennifer Williams has more.

Research identifies key factors affecting semaglutide initiation among obese individuals without diabetes, revealing ...

A parasitic worm infection, also known as a helminth infection, occurs when parasitic worms, or helminths, infect the body.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than two in five American adults have obesity, a common and ...

Black people with obesity are less likely to get weight-loss surgery than others.Black people are just as likely to d ...

Asians, non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics were significantly less likely than whites to use obesity-management medications to lower their weight compared with whites, new research suggests. The ...