Kids are more likely to maintain a healthy weight if their parents adopt a responsive style while they're babies and toddlers ...

“By fostering early-life responsive parenting practices, we can help establish healthy growth trajectories that may reduce ...

Roche has acquired rights to an obesity therapy by Denmark's Zealand Pharma in a collaboration deal worth up to $5.3 billion, ...

Dogs are a good model for studying human obesity because they develop obesity through similar environmental influences as ...

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The deal provides Viking Therapeutics with a secured dedicated annual supply of both injectable and oral versions of its ...

Married men were 3.2 times more likely to be obese than unmarried men while no such link was found for married women.

UD researchers discover that differences in gene expression in fat could be the key to targeted obesity treatment. According to the CDC, up to 40% of Americans are obese, increasing their risk of high ...

On Monday, representatives from Acadiana’s two largest hospital systems, Ochsner Lafayette General and Our Lady of Lourdes, ...

The deal gives the Swiss pharma access to an experimental amylin-targeting treatment it will test in combination with drugs ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight as a waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study.

A Columbia University dermatologist argues that physicians in her specialty should be on the lookout for metabolic syndrome ...