Black Americans are nearly twice as likely as their white counterparts to develop dementia and also face some of the highest obesity rates in the nation — troubling numbers as St. Louis researchers ...

We're just setting up a generation of people to move through life, having their cardiovascular events earlier and more severe ...

Scientists say the findings are a warning about the kinds of chemical that people are exposed to in the environment.

Background Metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), the most common chronic liver disease globally, may originate early in life. While maternal obesity is linked to offspring ...

Obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure are fueling increases in cardiovascular disease, even among much younger women, the ...

Early life obesity appears to mediate the effect ...

A growing body of research suggests the brain plays a central role in diabetic ketoacidosis, opening the possibility of treating type 1 diabetes in an entirely new way.

Retatrutide helped trial participants lose up to 28.7% of their body weight, but experts warn about excessive weight loss.

In South Africa, access to weight loss medicines like Ozempic and Mounjaro remains limited to those who can shell out a few thousand Rand a month. In the second article of a Spotlight special series, ...

Heart disease is on track to tighten its grip on American women. New projections from the American Heart Association warn that over the next 25 years, cardiovascular disease will rise sharply, driven ...

Without better prevention and early detection, the number of women living with cardiovascular disease will increase substantially in the next 25 years, the American Heart Association said.