The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) previously stopped its appraisal of semaglutide (Wegovy) for use ...

Mothers with high blood pressure, diabetes, or obesity during pregnancy tend to have children with higher blood pressure, a ...

The UK’s state-run National Health Service (NHS) is rolling out ‘spy scales’ to monitor severely obese children from afar and ...

So far 4,784 children and young people, aged from two to 18, living with severe obesity in England, have received care for ...

Overweight children are more vulnerable to early-onset hypertension. Childhood obesity is driving a rise in high blood ...

Study highlights rising obesity rates among Indian women, urging urgent public health action to address fertility and ...

Many are from the most deprived areas, and a significant number are neurodivergent or have other health conditions, a study ...

Thousands of severely obese children are being supported to lose weight and live healthier lifestyles thanks to the roll-out of specialist NHS clinics and new digital ‘smart scale’ technology to ...

Weight loss jabs, also known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, work by reducing food cravings. Giving obese children weight-loss ...

The drugs help severely obese children to lose weight on top of the diet and lifestyle plan they are already following.

Giving obese children weight-loss jabs is effective and helps prevent battles around mealtimes, researchers say. Experts at ...

The NHS is rolling out “spy scales” to monitor children’s weight loss from afar and send motivational messages to keep them ...