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An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

More than a billion people are estimated to be living with obesity worldwide and prescription weight-loss drugs are in high ...

In Tuesday's issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, dozens of international medical experts and people with lived ...

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...

U.S. drugmaker Pfizer is going "all in" to develop its experimental obesity drug and has been recruiting more experts in that ...

Medical experts proposed a radical overhaul of how obesity is diagnosed, moving away from relying on body mass alone and ...

There’s still scope for a new generation of drugs to replace weight-loss market leaders like Novo Nordisk A/S’s Wegovy, ...

The just-published findings reveal what regulates a gene that’s pivotal to our food intake - and also our risk of obesity.

BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...

Can weight loss drugs curb alcohol addictions? This Louisiana doctor is keeping an eye on new findings and emerging research.

Eli Lilly's popular obesity drug Zepbound can now be covered by government-backed Medicare drug plans, CNBC reported on ...