Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

“I would consider it an epidemic,” Marie Ng, an affiliate associate professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington ... study say BMI may not ...

A new report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology challenges the conventional reliance on Body Mass Index (BMI) ...

Wildfires fueled by strong Santa Ana winds have devastated Southern California, destroying thousands of homes and causing 27 deaths. The fires, affecting urban areas and the Olympic preparation ...

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Thousands of health workers have been killed, injured, displaced, or have emigrated, leaving the healthcare system in even more dire straits. “The need for health workers is dire,” Dr Abubakar noted ...

New research exposes critical flaws in BMI measurements, as medical experts advocate for more accurate and inclusive methods ...