A recent advisory from the U.S. Surgeon General highlights alcohol consumption as the third-leading preventable cause of ...

“By identifying individuals in a preclinical obesity phase, where they are not yet classified as obese but are showing signs of metabolic dysregulation, there is an opportunity for earlier ...

A murderer who killed his girlfriend and dumped her head in a bag died of heart disease and obesity behind bars. Alan Cameron ...

In the next in our series, Dr Keith Hopcroft asks what is going on with this young male with recurrent urinary tract symptoms ...

The data for the UK has been analysed by the PA news agency. It shows that for children aged five to 14, obesity will rise ...

“This could be due to a combination of increased awareness and improvements in cancer detection and treatment. But the stark ...

For some people, the quest to lose weight feels like a constant struggle. Now, scientists have revealed that a newly ...

Death rates from breast cancer will fall in 2025 in every age group in the EU and the UK apart from in EU patients aged 80 years and older. In these older patients, overall mortality rates from the ...

But what exactly is obesity? As per the NHS, "the term obese describes a person who has excess body fat." It's a complex issue with many causes. Fat gain is caused when extra calories ...

Obesity also raises the risk of heart disease, which kills 315,000 people every year in the UK - making it the number one cause of death. Carrying dangerous amounts of weight has also been linked ...

They looked at both large population-based studies, and at cohorts of patients with severe, early onset obesity where single genetic changes are suspected to cause the weight gain. But researchers ...

While it is quite common, Lipoedema UK says there has been little research into the condition since it was first named in the 1940s, including into its causes and treatments. What little ...