A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows about half of U.S. adults believe it is a good thing for adults to use weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and ...

This repeated cross-sectional study including 69.2 million obesity management drug dispensed prescriptions revealed an increase from 0.76 million in July 2017 to 1.5 million in February 2024, with an ...

Obesity is a chronic disease that occurs when a person has excess body fat, resulting in a high body mass index (BMI). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a person ...

The need to move beyond BMI was felt to prevent both under- and over-diagnosis of obesity-related health risks, especially with the availability of weight-loss injections ...

Medical experts have urged a shift away from the Body Mass Index (BMI) as the main yardstick to determine obesity as it does not factor in body fat levels. The prevalent method is so flawed that it ...

Dr. Angela Fitch, former president of the Obesity Medicine Association, emphasized the need for accessible and safe treatments: “High costs and limited coverage push people toward unsafe alternatives.

A day after international experts proposed a new approach to define obesity by looking beyond body mass index (BMI), Indian doctors have drawn up similar guidelines. India-specific guidelines are ...

Patients in the overweight program have a one-time medical visit with a Form Health American Board of Obesity Medicine physician to go over medical history and comorbidities. They then meet with a ...

Evidence for the positive effects of intermittent fasting continues to mount: a new study shows that for people with obesity, it can lead to additional ... (Dote-Montero et al., Nature Medicine, 2025) ...

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The Obesity Society (TOS) applauds the work of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on Diagnostic Criteria of Clinical Obesity to refine the definition of obesity and ...

Leading medics have raised concerns that people are being "overdiagnosed" with obesity, calling for a "reframing" of the way the condition is diagnosed. Academics argue that a body mass index (BMI ...