BMI, a widely used measure, has long been criticized for being too simplistic. It calculates obesity based only on height and ...

According to a September 2024 data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40.3 percent of U.S.

CDC officials say they extended the guidance now because they are seeing more H5N1 patients whose illness they cannot track back to an infected bird or cow.

As of March 2020, nearly 42% of US adults had obesity, with the report estimating that more than a billion people are living ...

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...