A new University of Michigan study shows that a strong majority of older Americans want health insurance — including Medicare — to cover weight loss medications, as rising interest and ...

I worry about how these changes, which are occurring at the age of 13 or 14, might affect them later in life,” the study’s lead author said.

Augusta University professor Lauren von Klinggraeff received a grant from the American Heart Association to study childhood obesity prevention. The study aims to increase physical activity and ...

Taking antibiotics within the first two years of life is linked to a higher body mass index (BMI) in childhood, according to a new study. The research will be presented at the Pediatric Academic ...

Research focused on addressing these urgent questions was carried out by Janet Currie, then at Columbia University and ... food outlets affected obesity levels among a very large sample of students, ...

Kaleidoscope Preschool and Childcare Center of Orcas Island was recently the first data collection site for Washington State University ... s current COMETS study (Childhood Obesity: the role ...

A new study now reveals that exposure to air pollution in the three months before pregnancy could increase the risk of childhood obesity ... Duke University, and Fudan University conducted ...

"We know that current measures of childhood obesity such as the body mass ... at the department of medicine, McMaster University. "Most studies focus on specific points in time and mostly involve ...