The NHS has released an online tool to help patients check if they are eligible for certain weight loss medications - use the ...

A new weight loss treatment known as tripeptide (Mounjaro) is expected to be rolled out via the NHS in March 2025 ...

The US data suggest that the South has seen the greatest shifts, and the highest rate of GLP-1 prescribing per capita.

For most of Nancy Manther’s life, there’s been a nearly-constant chatter in her brain focused on food and diet. It was an ...

The mean body mass index (BMI) and the prevalence of obesity both dropped in 2023 for the first time in more than a decade.

More recent birth cohorts have lower levels of total cholesterol and fasting triglyceride levels, and higher levels of fasting glucose.

A reduction in body mass index in adults with overweight or obesity is associated with lower health care spending.

The Public Health Agency of Canada is part of the federal health portfolio. Our activities focus on protecting against threats to public health, preventing and reducing diseases and injury, and ...

While BMI looks at your height and weight, BRI specifically looks at waist circumference and some scientists believe that it is a better indicator of many health problems, such as kidney disease ...

Around 3000 nurses were hired last year meaning Health NZ now employed 35,000. “We’ve got the lowest turnover we’ve had in a very long time.” ...

Maternal eating disorders and prepregnancy BMI ... and Health Care Register, covering live births in Finland from January 1, 2004, to December 31, 2014. In total, 392,098 mothers with a mean ...