The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Novavax's Covid-19 vaccine with age restrictions after a six-week delay.

A new nationwide analysis is shedding light on how states compare when it comes to a major public health challenge, and the ...

Deaths attributed to both acute heart attack and obesity rose between 2007 and 2019, according to findings from the CDC ...

Queen Latifah opens up about obesity and heart health risks for public awareness campaign, Truth About Weight.

Here’s another clue to who might be more vulnerable than others to long Covid. A new study published Wednesday in PLOS has ...

In 2022, one in every eight people around the world was living with obesity? Obesity has become a growing global health concern, with adult rates more than ...

Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk is teaming up with California-based biotech Septerna to develop new pills to treat obesity, type 2 diabetes and other metabolic diseases.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) defines being overweight — as measured by height versus weight — as having a body mass index (BMI) between 25 and 29, and Class 1 obesity as having a body ...

In just two months as the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made sweeping changes to the Department of Health and Human Services — and its priorities.

The prevalence of obesity among people aged two to 19 years in the US increased from 13.9% in 1999–2000 to 21.1% in 2021–2023. According to the CDC, an estimated 22.2% of US teens are ...