Women’s health specialist nurse Ruth Bailey provides an update on what GPNs need to know about offering emergency ...

Athletes and people who are very fit, like Kelce and Gyllenhaal, may have a higher BMI because muscle typically weighs more than fat. But that doesn't make them unhealthy. Women's rugby player ...

According to a September 2024 data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40.3 percent of U.S.

A new data report is out on global music streaming with women dominating the pop music chart and winning seven of the top 10 spots. The artists include Taylor Swift, who takes home the top spot ...

Body mass index (BMI) is one of the most ubiquitous yet controversial metrics in medicine. A crude measure of weight relative to height, BMI is commonly used to diagnose obesity—even though many ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI) measure. The new guidance comes from the ...

Vantika holds the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster and International Master. She is a three-time gold medalist at the Chess ...

There are good reasons to step away from the scale. It can be a place of supreme stress, in a society that prizes thinness and stigmatizes fat. Then there’s the mounting scientific evidence that ...

Queensland-based Sarah Cox recalls that in 2018, her doctor advised her to lose weight because her body mass index (BMI) was too high, despite her feeling healthy and experiencing no physical ...