obesity

States increasingly struggling to cover the rising cost of popular GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound are searching for ways to get out fro...

As the old saying goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” and in my decades of experience in healthcare that absolutely rings true. T...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — After adding more than $1 billion to its anticipated Medicaid costs this year specifically for Ozempic and similar weight-loss drug...

DuBOIS — According to the National Institutes of Health, nearly one in three adults are overweight, more than two in five adults have obesity and abou...

CHICAGO (TNS) — In a Jan. 2 “Monday Night Football” game, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field. An imm...

MONTOURSVILLE — New Year’s resolutions can be helpful for developing healthy habits, and habits are easier to stick to if you’re not in it alone. Why ...

Obesity is known to be a potentially life-altering medical condition that can increase the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke a...

Scientific understanding is challenging the conventional wisdom about hunger — now framing it as a scourge that afflicts not only people who get too f...

EMPORIUM — UPMC Cole is proud to announce that Shivraj Goyal, M.D. has recently earned diplomate board certification through the American Board of Obe...

FORT WORTH, Texas — When the story of the COVID-19 pandemic is written, it will need to include several chapters — perhaps several volumes — about the...

The Bradford YMCA wants families in Bradford to understand how adopting healthy habits together can help reduce childhood obesity. September is Childh...

More and more students are receiving free or discounted lunches at schools across the four-county region. That’s according to The Center for Rural Pen...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Suspended Subway pitchman Jared Fogle's foundation, which encourages children to avoid the same obesity he experienced in college,...