The best metric is not weight, but a particularly toxic kind of fat.

The obesity drug helped people trim about two inches more off their waists than Wegovy in the first head-to-head study of the ...

The trends worry health experts, who say the medicines have potential to narrow differences in obesity rates among ...

Being very overweight or obese is known to increase the risk of a multitude of diseases, from diabetes to several types of ...

It's widely recognized that health is determined by more than genetics. Socioeconomic factors, physical activity, nutrition, ...

Life expectancy varies widely across states. Policies, economic conditions, and public health efforts significantly impact lifespan.

Almost every city on the U.S coastline saw an increase in sea level rises in 2024, according to the Virginia Institute of ...

Adolescents with abdominal obesity have larger brain regions linked to memory and emotional control, potentially due to ...

Several areas of the brain, including regions that play a critical role in learning and memory and in the control of emotions ...

In neighborhoods across America, women face a daunting threat from a federal practice that, although it was outlawed decades ago, continues to negatively impact their health today.

Newsweek has created a map that highlights a sobering reality for parts of the United States: in dozens of U.S. counties, ...

Painting the Deep South as an embarrassing cultural backwater is one of the last socially acceptable forms of prejudice among ...