A new specialist centre is taking a cutting-edge approach to childhood obesity – and seeing astonishing results ...

NHS hospital treatment for obesity has quadrupled over the past decade as almost 1.9million hospital episodes were recorded ...

Eighty percent of doctors in a Medscape survey answered no when asked, “Is enough known about obesity meds’ risk to ...

There are concerns about the use of pharmacological interventions like Saxenda to treat obesity in children, particularly as BMI rose after the drug was discontinued in the trial, suggesting that ...

The study analyzes how exposure to a combination of different metals can influence childhood overweight and obesity, public health problems that increasingly affect more children around the world ...

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Nov. 26, 2024 — Tirzepatide, a new injectable weight-loss drug, reduced the risk of diabetes in patients with obesity and prediabetes by more than 90% over a three-year period, compared with ...

Researchers have identified a link between childhood obesity and excessive protein intake, most likely from too high levels of protein in formula milk during the first two years of life. Baby formula ...

From age five onward, children with ADHD (excluding those on medication) were more likely to have obesity, with odds ratios between 1.57 and 2.46, indicating small to medium effect sizes.

Older data from the same survey states that adults with depression are more likely to have obesity than adults without depression. Likewise, children living with depression may have a higher body ...

Before 2023, between 2013-2022, obesity numbers were on an uphill climb. But they plateaued in 2022 before taking a slight turn south. John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children ...