More Americans are overweight than ever before. The US is losing its battle against the bulge. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that Americans are heavier ...

Obesity rates have remained roughly the same in the U.S. over the past two years, but remain high nationwide — especially in the Midwest and South. (Getty Images) More than one in five American adults ...

New CDC population data from 2023 show that in 23 states more than one in three adults (35%) has obesity. Before 2013, no state had an adult obesity prevalence at or above 35%. Currently, at least one ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- New guidance from the CDC shows people who are obese are more likely to be at risk when it comes to COVID-19. "We don't want to impugn people but we have to understand and ...

At least 35 percent of residents had obesity in 16 states in 2020, up from nine states in 2018, according to the CDC’s 2020 Adult Obesity Prevalence Maps. Those 16 states are: Alabama, Arkansas, ...

Allison DeAngelis is the East Coast biotech and venture capital reporter at STAT, reporting where scientific ideas and money meet. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud.

In July 1946, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — then known as the Communicable Disease Center — was launched to combat the spread of malaria, according to JAMA. Seventy years later, the ...

Overweight or obese individuals carry an increased risk of 13 types of cancer that collectively account for about 40 percent of all cancers diagnosed in the United States, according to the CDC’s most ...

New guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO) recommend using GLP-1 medications to help manage obesity along with a ...

CDC projects that 1 in 3 people will have diabetes by 2050. Oct. 22, 2010— -- Up to one in three American adults will have diabetes by 2050 unless something is done to curb unhealthy lifestyle ...