Clinicians need to address maternal health at all stages, with some seeing a possible new role for GLP-1 drugs.

For the past decade, the body mass index formula has been used to deny or delay abortion care, despite researchers finding little evidence of increased adverse outcomes based on higher body weight ...

A mum was left shocked and upset after her five-year-old daughter came home from school with a letter describing her as ...

Elinzanetant significantly reduced the frequency and severity of vasomotor symptoms, known as hot flashes, compared with ...

For those conceived during colder months, an increase in brown fat also appears to correlate with higher daily energy use, ...

BMI has its flaws. For example, it can’t tell the difference between fat and muscle, so it can be off when someone is very muscular or has lost muscle mass. Muscular people might have a high BMI ...

High schools have long been recognized for shaping students' futures. According to a new study by researchers from Penn State ...

New research suggests that a larger waist circumference is a bigger risk factor than body mass index (BMI) for obesity-related cancers — but only for men, not for women. Experts weighed in.

Researchers used a latent class trajectory model to identify BMI trajectories among 276,747 children born in Denmark between 1930 and 1982. Researchers found adults who had a higher-than-average ...