Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. has suggested that Americans who eat doughnuts and sodas or smoke should not be ...

For decades, the Body Mass Index (BMI) has been the ... s risk of developing health conditions related to obesity. Developed by researchers at the University of Arizona, BRI considers both height ...

While most guidelines require 6 months of behavioral interventions before prescribing weight-loss drugs, new research shows ...

A group of children and adults with hypothalamic obesity receiving setmelanotide for 1 year had nearly a 20% greater BMI ...

Dementia is rapidly becoming one of Kenya's most pressing health challenges, yet stigma, misinformation, and a lack of awareness continue to hinder early diagnosis and care.

The GBD 2021 Adolescent BMI Collaborators concluded ... and training at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington in Seattle, United States, described ...

A review and analysis of reams of earlier research found that being out of shape doubled or tripled the risk of dying ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a restructure is needed at HHS due to Americans "getting sicker." But are they? Here's what the ...

But recent science has hinted that being fit and active changes those outcomes, no matter someone’s BMI ... the University of Kansas Medical Center who studies obesity, exercise and health.

Still, many medical professionals believe that adiposity, or the accumulation of body fat, is a more accurate way of capturing health than BMI. Research increasingly shows that excess adiposity ...

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University has appointed David Chan as Professor of Violin, starting full time in the fall of 2025. Learn more about Chan here!