Streeting announced a collaboration with the world's largest pharmaceutical company, Lilly, which will include a five-year ...

There is no perfect definition of healthy or unhealthy food. There is no perfect system of regulation. But I believe that ...

Outdoor play habits in early preschool years are associated with a lower risk for school-age obesity, according to a study ...

For individuals with obesity, metabolic-bariatric surgery (MBS) is associated with a reduced risk for pancreatic cancer, ...

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Britain’s ill-health crisis is driving more than eight million adults out of the workforce, a report has shown. The research shows that one in five people of working age have health conditions ...

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Ozempic was developed by Novo Nordisk as a treatment for type 2 diabetes before its fat-busting properties led to a boom in “off-label” use as an obesity treatment. The company has since ...

has said chief executive Sima Sistani is stepping down with immediate effect as the group struggles with the growing popularity of anti-obesity drugs. The announcement on Friday of the departure ...

Kennedy’s post on X Thursday is framed as a comment on an opinion piece about the difficulties of defining the disease of obesity published last week in the New York Times. His main critique of ...