Imagine trying to work out if you are dangerously overweight without once hopping on to the bathroom scales. That's what a new method for determining body size aims to do.

New study from deCODE genetics/Amgen highlights the importance of BMI in pathogenesis of disease, suggesting that reducing ...

Indoor and outdoor air pollution is widely recognised as a substantial risk factor for poor health outcomes, particularly in sensitive groups such as pregnant women and newborns. Pregnancy renders ...

An abnormal BMI in children -- be it high or low -- can now be associated with impaired lung function, but if their BMI is normalized before they reach adulthood, the impairment can be offset ...