Obesity has often been described as a "gateway disease" leading to other conditions — and one of those is COVID-19, according to a new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical ...

Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much worse it could get. A team of researchers found that in 2021, one billion men ...

People who live with obesity are "tagging" a memory of being overweight on a key part of the immune system—leaving people ...

Joseph Zucchi, PA-C Obesity is a chronic disease, but we aren’t treating it like one. Right now in Massachusetts, state employees covered through the Group Insurance Commission are set to lose ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising secret hidden inside fat cells that could reshape how we think about obesity and metabolic disease. A protein called HSL, long believed to simply release stored ...

In a new research report, a team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins Medicine say people with severe obesity and a common type ...

A study published Monday in the Lancet predicts that about 60% of adults and nearly a third of young people worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050. Halfpoint - stock.adobe.com In case you need ...

In the Ozempic era, not all pounds lost are met with praise. New research suggests that people may face more judgment for ...

Every year, researchers crunch the data and map out where Americans are struggling most with weight – and the results aren’t ...

New research suggests the best time of day for people with obesity to exercise is between 6 p.m. and midnight. In a study of nearly 30,000 adults with obesity, people who worked out in the evenings ...

New research shows that the same genes are active in pancreatic cancer, obesity and diabetes, helping to explain why people ...