Maryland’s policymakers should expand Medicaid coverage to include weight loss medications, writes Michelle Rogers.

In good news for those averse to injections, GLP-1 agonist medication is a step closer to being offered in oral pill form, ...

AstraZeneca and Viking Therapeutics both presented encouraging data on their obesity pills. Meanwhile, here’s how Americans ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer While taking GLP-1 medications like Ozempic may seem like a guaranteed way to reach your weight ...

Obesity caused by a lifestyle of moving less and eating more is a prime factor contributing to Type 2 diabetes. Is the answer ...

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

Viking Therapeutics' weight loss drug VK2735 may challenge Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly's dominance in the obesity drug space ...

People taking phentermine can lose over 7% of their body weight, or at least 8 pounds.

Wegovy and similar weight-loss medications are becoming widely prescribed for teenagers with obesity, but little is known ...

Poor diet/physical inactivity accounted for 400,000 deaths, or 16.6% of deaths, in 2000 (Cover Figure). While smoking rates have dropped in recent years, obesity is on the rise. Currently ...