More than 150,000 people in the UK have MS, a devastating chronic immune disease that can cause problems with sight, writing, ...

In 2021, over 15 million children and young adolescents and 172 million adults were overweight or obese. This represents a ...

Severe obesity in childhood and adolescence more than triples the risk of MS, and obesity treatment does not seem to reverse it, a study finds.

High ultraprocessed food consumption during early childhood is associated with obesity development, primarily in males.

A positive response to treatment for pediatric obesity has enduring health benefits into young adulthood, according to a study.

One of the inadequacies of using body mass index (BMI) as a predictive factor is that “current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate” a persons ...

What especially shook investors was the prospect that China may have closed the tech gap with the United States in AI and especially DeepSeek’s claim that it developed R1 for just $5.6 million—a far ...

Children who lost enough weight to no longer be considered obese had similar reductions in risk, and also experienced a 60% lower risk of high blood pressure, researchers report. Obesity remission or ...

The county council is expanding its health and wellbeing programmes for children and families. This is to help tackle childhood obesity and support children to get active and stay healthy. Almost ...

Doctors should use their clinical judgment and “intervene as part of the duty of care” if they feel obesity or weight related problems are posing a “significant threat” to a child or young person, the ...

LONDON – Medical experts proposed a radical overhaul of how obesity is diagnosed, moving away from relying on body mass alone and adding broader measurements such as heart health. The ...