Councils need more support from central government to help bring down childhood obesity rates, a local authority has said.

Ask the Experts” also served as a kickoff event for Cleveland Clinic’s Palm Beach Ball, which takes place Feb. 22 at The ...

GPs should use their ‘clinical judgement’ to decide when a child’s obesity has become a safeguarding concern, according to ...

Where you store fat, as opposed to how much you have, may be a bigger risk factor for colon cancer, a study published in JAMA ...

A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...

Researchers present a nuanced approach to defining clinical obesity as a chronic illness resulting from the effect of excess adiposity on organ and tissue function.

More than half of respondents to a survey were unaware that bariatric surgery may improve some women’s chances of getting ...