One study shows two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, but better access to health care and health technology could ...

Research shows an average weight loss of just 5% could save an annual $153bn in medical fees and lost productivity.

The most-read obesity articles of 2024 mostly focused on insurance coverage of weight loss medications and costs.

Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic are transforming the fight against obesity, but they are forcing us to face crucial questions ...

Oh dear, Keir. In late October, I issued a 100-day appeal for the gloomsters and doomsters to pipe down and just let the new ...

By modelling the productivities and costs associated with healthy weight ... The significant economic burden of obesity demonstrated coincides with a ballooning of the obesity medicines sector ...

And for good reason — more than two in five US adults have obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and costs to treat obesity, in 2019 dollars, approached $173 ...

Nearly all of Louisiana’s adults and the majority of the state’s adolescents are projected to be overweight or obese by 2050, ...

To foray into the lucrative obesity market, Merck MRK announced that it is in-licensing global rights to an investigational ...

A few years ago, West Virginia, which has the highest obesity rate in the nation, quietly began a small and unusual pilot ...

The Biden administration has unveiled a major proposal to expand Medicare and Medicaid coverage for anti-obesity drugs, ...

Struggles with obesity are a longstanding issue for millions of Americans and thousands of Iowans, but recent advancements in ...