Obesity is on the rise in Singapore, with recent studies revealing a worrying trend. The 2021/2022 National Population Health Survey by the Ministry of Health showed that the prevalence of obesity ...

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The trends worry health experts, who say the medicines have potential to narrow differences in obesity rates among demographic groups, but may in fact be widening them.

Obesity is a disease and we need to start treating it like one Misperceptions and a focus on weight-loss medications risk oversimplifying a complex health crisis. A coordinated approach is needed.

CHARLEBOIS: Childhood obesity gets a prescription — and the food sector a warning New guidelines encourage physicians to consider prescribing Ozempic and Wegovy to children as young as 12 ...

The Trump administration says it will not move forward with a Biden proposal that Medicare cover anti-obesity drugs such as Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Zepbound from Eli Lilly.

The global obesity observatory estimates that the annual economic cost of obesity and being overweight in India in 2019 was $28.95 billion (₹1,800 per capita), or 1.02% of India’s GDP.

Obesity is a complex health condition characterized by excessive body fat accumulation, increasing the risk of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and certain cancers.

Other measurements, such as waist circumference and evidence of health problems tied to extra weight, would be considered for diagnoses of obesity.

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

A Lancet Commission has provided new definitions for “clinical” and “preclinical” obesity, with the former being labelled the disease and the latter a condition of health risk.

Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk will kick off a massive shopping spree in 2025. The two obesity giants will be sitting on cash piles of around $80 billion by 2028, according to LSEG data, thanks to the ...