Adults with a higher body-fat percentage (27 per cent or more in men; 44 per cent or more in women) were 78 per cent more ...

Children with higher polygenic scores showed accelerated body mass index gain from age 2.5 years to adolescence.

BMI is still commonly used to assess obesity even though research has shown it's not necessarily a reliable metric. A new study proposes doctors instead use technology that can measure body fat.

In an 18-month clinical trial of the experimental GLP-1 pill orforglipron, about 60 percent of people lost at least 10 ...

ATTAIN-1 is the second trial this year to show positive results with once-daily orforglipron, with best results seen at the ...

Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a natural, gut-derived hormone that is released after we eat. It has beneficial effects ...

The likelihood of contracting oral cancer increases by 325% if a patient is diagnosed with cannabis use disorder, according ...

New research explores whether diet or exercise plays a bigger role in obesity—and the findings might surprise you.

A new "heart age" calculator presents a person's heart disease risk as a relative age, rather than a percentage. That could ...

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Union Health Ministry says it is ordering mass screenings for liver health after more than 80 per cent of IT workers in ...

The QRISK3 assessment is designed for the general population, but it appears to also have utility in patients with essential thrombosis and polycythemia vera.