A protest at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over budget cuts tipped over into calls for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign.

Kennedy Jr. began his tenure as Health and Human Services Secretary, he pledged, “We won’t take away anyone’s vaccines.” ...

Adolescents face significant barriers to obesity medication access, despite a surge in prescriptions. Discover the ...

Policy makers seeking to reduce childhood obesity must prioritize investment in treatment and primary prevention. We estimated the cost-effectiveness of seven interventions high on the obesity ...

Obesity — like most other medical conditions — requires an “arsenal” of treatments, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.

Background Obesity is a growing public health challenge worldwide with significant health and economic impacts. However, much of what is known about the economic impacts of obesity comes from ...

1 Center for Evaluation and Survey Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico 2 Center for Mathematics Research, Aguascalientes Unit, Aguascalientes, Mexico Background: ...

Objective To determine the prevalence of obesity and its related comorbidities among patients being actively managed at a US academic medical centre, and to examine the frequency of a formal diagnosis ...

"So the risk factors or causes of obesity are inclusive of an unhealthy diet, a sedentary lifestyle, genetics plays a role, lack of sleep. And there are some underlying conditions that predispose ...

Disparities that tend to cause obesity include a delay in diagnosis. If certain groups or persons do not have access to good medical care, they can delay their diagnosis of obesity, and thus the ...

Four leading organizations in lifestyle medicine, obesity medicine, and nutrition—the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), the American Society for Nutrition (ASN), the Obesity ...

Turkey has launched a nationwide campaign to measure citizens’ weight in public to combat its rising obesity rates — a move critics argue amounts to public fat shaming and government overreach.