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 ...

Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window Obesity rates continue to rise in the United States. Treatment includes modification of diet, exercise, behavioral ...

Just under 12% of adults currently smoke cigarettes, the report says. Smoking rates have declined among men from 51% in 1965 to just under 16% in 2018, and from 34% among women in 1965 to 12% in 2018.

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 ...

A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis ... The results were published in Nature Medicine journal. Ali Aminian, M.D., director of Cleveland Clinic's Bariatric ...

Researchers present a nuanced approach to defining clinical obesity as a chronic illness resulting from the effect of excess adiposity on organ and tissue function.

So the advice I would give to new residents who are seeing patients with obesity is to one, first, check your own self in terms of your own perspectives and bias that you may not necessarily ...

An anti-obesity drug, the first such medicine to become available in Japan, has been approved for manufacturing and sales by an expert panel of the health ministry. The decision, made Nov. 28 ...

The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

The policies included mandating primary and secondary school students to have at least two hours of physical activity daily, to effectively control myopia, or nearsightedness and obesity rates.

Not long after reporting phase 2 data for one of its obesity candidates that appeared to put it on par with Eli Lilly’s Zepbound, Kailera Therapeutics is preparing for an eventual market launch ...

Jan. 27, 2025 — A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future risk of developing serious ...