In a bid to combat rising obesity rates, Turkey has launched a nationwide health initiative that involves weighing citizens in public spaces and urging those found overweight to slim down, reported ...

Not all children grow the same way. A new study from the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program ...

Health workers have been deployed across each of the country's 81 regions with weighing scales and tape measures as the drive ...

Researchers examined the heritability of body mass index (BMI), highlighting that genetics and the gut microbiome both play major roles in obesity risk. The review emphasizes that maternal microbiome ...

GoodRx reviews the many factors that make weight loss harder for some women and shares useful strategies to optimize health ...

Researchers analyzing data from 915 U.S. cities found that both obesity and impulsivity (measured by ADHD rates) are less ...

Children attending NHS excess weight clinics are overwhelmingly from deprived backgrounds, and often face complex health and ...

New research on children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) shows that the longer a patient's body mass index ...

What if your toddler's chubby belly wasn't just "baby fat" that would disappear, but an early warning sign for serious health ...

Obese children to be given numberless scales in NHS weight-loss scheme - Data is automatically transferred to the child’s ...

NHS England says the ‘game-changing tool’ is being rolled out at specialist clinics where staff can monitor and provide ongoing weight-loss help.