Instead of picking up my son at school, I had to identify him at the morgue. It’s inhuman torture,” Drew’s father, Mitch ...

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed trying to figure out what truly counts as healthy, here’s some good news: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently updated its definition of what fo ...

Their cognitive function was assessed using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). We defined a healthy lifestyle score on the basis of being non-smoking, performing ≥210 min/wk ...

“People with excess body fat do not always have a BMI that indicates they are living with obesity ... for healthcare workers and policymakers to tackle this issue.” A new definition of obesity could ...

By Gina Kolata Obesity should be assessed in a way that goes beyond the standard measure of body mass index, or B.M.I., according to a new definition ... who are otherwise healthy, should pretty ...

February is Heart Month, an effort to raise awareness of heart disease, the leading cause of death for both men and women.

It’s estimated more than one billion people in the world are living with obesity as defined by the current definition that relies solely on body mass index or BMI. Now health care experts say ...

They may nonetheless suffer the health consequences of obesity ... “It can lead to life-altering or life-threatening complications,” the Commission states. The new definition broadens the meaning of ...

Some say it helps legitimize obesity’s seriousness; others point out that people living with obesity are not always ill. So a commission of nearly 60 health experts has proposed a definition and ...

AI in drug development is a vague term that might mean many things, and today, Owkin is announcing it has enrolled the first patient in a phase 1 study of OKN4395, its “AI-optimized” candidate for ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a final rule updating the definition of the term “healthy” for use on food labels. This change aims to align with modern nutrition ...