Health leaders and politicians have accused the government of taking a weak stance on tackling the obesity crisis in England ...

This includes around 28 percent who are obese (with a BMI of 30 or more), double the percentage figure in 1990, when obesity affected just 14 percent of British adults. More than 10 percent of ...

The figures, from NHS England, cover all patients with a diagnosis of obesity, meaning their excess weight was deemed to have fuelled their health issue. And they include 11,221 cases where ...

Britain's pharmacies regulator on Tuesday tightened rules for online pharmacies' prescribing obesity drugs, ordering them to make changes to prevent people from receiving drugs that could cause them ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment ...

By Gina Kolata Obesity should be assessed in a way that goes beyond the standard measure of body mass index, or B.M.I., according to a new definition of the condition released by an international ...

Over the past decades, obesity has reached epidemic proportions, now affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide.

Seven British patients who travelled to Turkey for weight loss surgery died after operations there, a BBC investigation into the trend has found. Others have returned home with serious health ...

Roughly a quarter of British households own a pet dog ... "greedy" breed often suffers size-related health problems. "Obesity is a serious issue for our dog population," says Dr Eleanor Raffan ...