Jan. 27, 2025 — A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future ... Signposting Children to ...

They are going under the knife as childhood obesity levels soar, with one in three now classified as overweight. At least nine youngsters aged between ten and 14 needed hip replacements as a ...

“As a physician of internal medicine, specialising in endocrinology, I treat patients with obesity, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnoea, high cholesterol and so on. So many open their consultations by ...

Eli Lilly’s profit doubled in the fourth quarter, propelled by its hot-selling diabetes and obesity treatments, and the drugmaker came out with a mostly better-than-expected 2025 forecast.

The Danish pharmaceutical company has become one of Europe’s largest companies on the back of soaring demand for its obesity treatments. It revealed that sales of Wegovy, a prescription weight ...

Children as young as ten have had hip replacements on the NHS because they are so overweight, alarming figures show. Britain's child obesity crisis has been laid bare after it emerged at least ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity. The global team’s recommendations were published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Jan. 14. Body mass index ...

A new report argues that body mass index or BMI is not the most accurate way to define obesity. BMI is only a measure of a person’s weight and height and does not account for muscle mass.