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

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 ...

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

It has long been a well-established and well-documented fact that obesity — a complex, chronic disease which involves the ...

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 ...

Less than a quarter of adults and around 13% of children have gotten a COVID-19 vaccination this past season, CDC data shows, ...

In just two months as the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made sweeping changes to the Department of ...

But among 2,000 hospitalized children with more detailed health information, only about 53% had an underlying condition — including asthma and obesity. The CDC report did not say how many of the ...

CDC officials have information about underlying conditions on nearly 5,200 adults who were hospitalized with flu this season, ...