The finding emphasizes the need for early monitoring and intervention to reduce the risk for long-term adverse health ...

The UK’s state-run National Health Service (NHS) is rolling out ‘spy scales’ to monitor severely obese children from afar and ...

What if your toddler's chubby belly wasn't just "baby fat" that would disappear, but an early warning sign for serious health ...

The drugs help severely obese children to lose weight on top of the diet and lifestyle plan they are already following.

Many are from the most deprived areas, and a significant number are neurodivergent or have other health conditions, a study ...

Giving obese children weight-loss jabs is effective and helps prevent battles around mealtimes, researchers say. Experts at ...

So far 4,784 children and young people, aged from two to 18, living with severe obesity in England, have received care for ...

Children who are living with severe obesity are more likely to experience a clinically relevant change in BMI when GLP-1 agonist drugs form part of their treatment, new research being presented at ...

Thousands of severely obese children are being supported to lose weight and live healthier lifestyles thanks to the roll-out of specialist NHS clinics and new digital ‘smart scale’ technology to ...

Giving obese children weight-loss jabs is effective and helps prevent battles around mealtimes, researchers say. Experts at the European Congress on Obesity in Malaga, Spain, presented findings ...

The first five years of a child's life may be key to preventing overweight and obesity in years to come, say the authors of ...

Individuals who lived with obesity as children are less likely to be in work or studying in their mid-20s than their peers, ...