Women who are pregnant and also have the ovarian cyst disorder polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are at higher odds of giving ...

Pregnant women with obesity face an increased risk of complications, including the need for a cesarean section, which carries its own set of risks.

New study reveals how flame retardants in pregnancy affect child obesity risk over 10 years. Pregnancy exposure to common ...

Examples of obesogenic practices described in their recent Pediatric Obesity paper include watching television while feeding a baby, formula feeding, and supplementing a bottle with additional foods.

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and obesity are at a higher risk of giving birth to smaller babies in terms of birth weight, length, and head circumference, according to a recent study ...

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and obesity are at a higher risk of giving birth to smaller babies in terms of birth weight, length, and head circumference, according to a recent study ...

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is back in the hospital and gearing up to sue New York’s public health system ...

A recent study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has highlighted a significant link between a ...

Baby food companies are misrepresenting the health of their ... This could be contributing to health problems down the line and contributing to the growing obesity epidemic in the United States. A ...

A startup claims it can screen your embryo's IQ as well as other traits like obesity risk and risk of mental health illnesses ...

According to the CDC, as of August 2023, 40.3 percent of U.S. adults—some 100 million people—met the clinical definition for obesity. But this same estimate, which is based on National Health ...

From this metric, your physician can diagnose whether you are under or average weight, or whether you have obesity. The thing is: BMI is a metric that was not designed to diagnose someone with a ...