A new study finds that people with obesity are more likely to be hospitalized with or die from severe infections.

After an FDA rejection of its spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) therapy, Biohaven was forced to rethink its strategy—cutting R&D spend by 60% and channeling the spirit of a scrappy startup again as it ...

Obesity — it's the bad word everyone throws around, but few want to truly understand. The American Academy of Pediatricians thought it had it all figured out with its shiny new treatment guidelines.

Researchers develop a new patient-reported outcome measure that may help assess how obesity or overweight, and their ...

At an Institute for Value-Based Medicine® (IVBM) event cohosted by The American Journal of Managed Care®, experts discussed efforts to implement obesity management science into practice. Obesity ...

Doctors, patients and researchers are at the very beginning of understanding how the new class of obesity drugs interact with ...

The workshop highlighted the science and recent developments in the understanding of emerging modifiable factors associated with the risk of early childhood obesity, including maternal health. The ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Form Health, the leading provider of science-based obesity care in the United States, announced a new program to prevent progression from overweight to obesity.

The U.S. military spends $1.24 billion each year to address obesity in the ranks, but Defense Department policies have been slow to adopt weight management treatments, including therapies and ...

Despite their rarity, celebrity tweets generate up to 20 times the engagement of health institutions, reshaping strategies for effective public health campaigns on social media. Whose tweets about ...

To uncover the nexus between ADHD and obesity, the research team applied urban scaling laws -- a mathematical framework from complexity science -- to public health data from 915 U.S. cities. Urban ...