Some new medications in development are also trying to solve for a persistent side effect of existing drugs: Patients who ...

Discover how smoking during pregnancy may increase childhood obesity risk, according to new research from Washington State ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help ...

To help stem the epidemic of obesity in the United States, a government advisory group yesterday urged for the first time that doctors weigh and measure all adults and recommend intensive ...

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, ... an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report. ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help most,” said Dr. David Cummings, an obesity expert at the University ...

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Last fall George Washington University released a report [PDF] that put a figure to the staggering individual costs of being obese in America. Dr. Avi Dor, report author and professor and director ...

Washington University School of Medicine said Monday it's receiving $14 million to test a family based program that aims to curb childhood obesity. The Business Journals.