What Is an Ideal ... weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height in meters. You can calculate your BMI with a simple online BMI calculator. The BMI ranges are as follows: Obesity ...

Family-based behavioral treatment (FBT) is a clinically-proven approach to treating children with obesity in which a health care professional works with the family to help children lose weight by ...

The author of a new guidebook on GLP-1s and other experts share their tips for how clinicians can optimize patient success ...

Weight-loss medicines such as Ozempic might raise a person’s likelihood of developing conditions including arthritis.

Eli Lilly's Ozempic-rivaling weight-loss pill orforglipron could be available in early 2026. Its retatrutide may be as ...

A document endorsed by more than 56 experts worldwide, published in 'The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology', proposes a change in narrative to align with "a chronic metabolic disease and understand its ...

People who stayed on a 7.2 milligram weekly dose of semaglutide lost around 20% of their body weight over 72 weeks.

When children with obesity undergo weight-loss treatment, the results have effects later in life, and the risk of serious ...

The number of prescriptions for obesity medications rose an average of 5.3% annually from 2017 to 2024 and corresponded with ...

Lean mass constituted 30.8% of total body weight lost for adults who received a GLP-1 drug during a randomized controlled ...

The Danish pharma giant posted impressive data for amycretin one month after the disappointing readout of CagriSema.

Nevertheless, this work suggests that “parents and interventionists should not rely on weight change as a long-term treatment approach for youth who have comorbid obesity and anxiety/depression ...