Novo Nordisk said a higher dose of its drug Wegovy led to greater weight loss in patients during a late-stage trial, but the ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

A coalition of obesity-related patient advocacy groups is calling on the incoming Trump administration to finalize a proposal ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

Despite the staggering impact of obesity on the Black community, columnist Justice B. Hill argues that the issue has been ...

An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether ...

Novo Nordisk, the largest European company by market capitalization, has achieved worse than expected results for its new slimming drug CagriSema ...

Researchers at LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center are working with the Lancet Commission on Clinical Obesity, in ...