Altimmune said on Thursday that it plans to test its lead experimental obesity drug, pemvidutide, to potentially treat ...

Semaglutide and tirzepatide confer greater improvements in life expectancy than naltrexone/bupropion and ...

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Roche has acquired rights to an obesity therapy by Denmark's Zealand Pharma in a collaboration deal worth up to $5.3 billion, ...

Research published in Nature determined why obese individuals who lose weight tend to regain the weight over time. Here's how ...

The administration is reviewing a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rule that would expand coverage to Medicare and Medicaid recipients ...

A Polish health survey found that being married increased risk of overweight in women and men, with the latter group also experiencing three times the risk of obesity.

Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much ...

Kids are more likely to maintain a healthy weight if their parents adopt a responsive style while they're babies and toddlers ...

The Maryland-based biopharma joins Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk in trialing a GLP-1 agonist for alcohol- and liver-related ...

A team of Ohio University researchers have made a groundbreaking development in the fight against obesity. In a study ...

Professor Arne Astrup is also involved in project to change widely-accepted definition of ultra-processed food ...