Despite an increase in the prevalence of prescribing, only 0.5 percent of U.S. adolescents with obesity were prescribed an ...

Recent actions by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dismissing an independent CDC advisory panel to restore trust ...

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 ...

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

Before 2013, no state had an adult obesity prevalence at or above 35%, the CDC said. Currently, at least one in five adults, 20%, in each U.S. state is living with obesity. Guam’s 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.

MORE: Obesity prevalence among US adults falls slightly to 40%, remains higher than 10 years ago: CDC The report further outlines the diagnostic criteria for obesity, combining elevated BMI with ...

According to the CDC, as of August 2023, 40.3 percent of U.S. adults—some 100 million people—met the clinical definition for obesity. But this same estimate, which is based on National Health ...

Languages: English. New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided insight into the prevalence of obesity across the United States. The figures, initially ...