A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked the federal government for $11 billion as a reimbursement for the border security measures he ...

Novo Nordisk shares were 9.5% higher after the pharmaceutical giant said an experimental weight-loss shot showed patients ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

The extent to which newer, incretin-based drugs for obesity improve disease outcomes via weight loss versus the direct ...

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

A novel GLP-1 and amylin receptor agonist featured a safety profile similar to other incretin-based therapies and conferred a ...

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

The commission recommends a shift away from relying solely on BMI to more accurately define obesity as a disease.

The Lancet Commission has declared obesity a disease. With enough controversy to fill a buffet table, their new definition is ...

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