A UVA study shows individuals classified as fit, even if overweight, are in less danger of cardiovascular disease and death.

BMI is a quick and convenient tool for assessing weight-related health risks, but some researchers back replacing it with an ...

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It’s important to help our kids maintain a healthy weight. But sometimes well-intentioned interventions can cause more harm ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine and collaborating institutions report in ...

Leigh-Anne Lagden, 26, opened up about being hospitalized after accidentally overdosing on knockoff weight loss injections ...

This explains the many guesstimated 450-pound bucks and 350-pound antlerless deer killed each year that somehow shrink ...

The modernization of the Fitbit app continues with a redesign of the Weight stats page, while Google is working on a new “Sleep Lab.” ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that the current accommodations for examinees with blindness for examinations such as those related to admissions are inadequate, particularly ...

The brain has GLP -1 receptors in abundance and, though very little drug seems to be able to cross the blood-brain barrier (the filter that protects the brain from harmful substances), experiments ...

Unplanned pregnancies are still being reported among people using GLP-1 drugs, but now fertility specialists are ...