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Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much worse it could get. A team of researchers found that in 2021, one billion men ...

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Obesity in adulthood is also caused by childhood undernutrition, which triggers the accumulation of energy in fat tissues.

Americans are getting sicker. Childhood obesity has reached epidemic levels. Rural hospitals are closing at alarming rates.

The Trump administration is stepping in to help Texas respond to the deadly and highly contagious respiratory virus.

For decades, we have witnessed steady growth in the prevalence of overweight and obesity throughout the world. In some ...

By the time sailing ship Capt. Robert Gray named and claimed the Columbia River for the United States in 1792, European diseases already had decimated the Pacific Northwest Native American population.

Studying epidemics can help us plan for the future and identify better ways of dealing with them. Now, in a new study ...