Policymakers must prioritize access to innovative obesity care in tackling the obesity epidemic across the United States.

For many, fitness trackers have become indispensable tools for monitoring how many calories they've burned in a day. But for ...

The UVA Cancer Center is taking a significant step forward in addressing the alarmingly high cancer rates across Virginia and ...

A terrifying map released by researchers at the University of California San Francisco has revealed the country's dementia ...

According to the CDC, 41.9 percent of adults and 19.7 percent of children have obesity in the U.S.—based on data from 2017 to 2020—and severe obesity affects 9.2 percent of adults. Meanwhile ...

A map shows places that Kennedy may tackle first due to high levels of obesity in those states, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). States shaded in dark orange and red indicate ...

The figures, initially from the 2023 Adult Obesity Prevalence Maps but updated on September ... Dr. Karen Hacker, director of the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health ...

A report compiled by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics found that between August 2021 and August 2023, the rate of obesity among the nation's adults was approximately 40.3%.

Around 40% of adults in the U.S. are obese, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests — marking the first time in over a decade that the nation's obesity rate has not ...