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 ...

Close to half of American adults could be living with obesity in the next decade, a study in JAMA says. Obesity is more ...

Early life obesity appears to mediate the effect ...

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, ...

Researchers have discovered that drugs like Ozempic for diabetes and obesity also improve alcohol use disorders and other addictions. This is a stunning gut-brain breakthrough.

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 ...

Cardiovascular disease and CV risk factors among women are expected to increase through 2050, with predicted increases in hypertension, obesity and diabetes, researchers reported.The prevalence of ...

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Driven by rising rates in high blood pressure, nearly 6 in 10 women in the U.S. will have some type of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the next 25 years, according to a new scientific statement ...

Getting the “munchies” after using marijuana isn’t just in your head. It’s a real biological phenomenon that could hold important, real-world implications for people suffering from conditions ...

MANILA, Philippines — The rise of obesity and overweight as well as its attendant maladies (diabetes, heart disease, among others) in the Philippines is definitely cause for concern. Many, however, ...