Despite the staggering impact of obesity on the Black community, columnist Justice B. Hill argues that the issue has been ...
Black people with obesity are less likely to get weight-loss surgery than others.Black people are just as likely to d ...
A new study by Mass General Brigham investigators shows persistent racial disparities and growing sex disparities between patients who discussed and received weight loss surgery between 2000 and 2020.
The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...
A new report shows that cancer cases are increasing in females in the United States and in younger adults. For the first time ...
Image: Unsplash People with chronic illnesses as a result of their weight would be diagnosed with ‘clinical obesity’ in line ... She said “It's not just a black and white diagnosis based ...
Cancer deaths overall are falling, but the burden is shifting toward younger adults and women, the American Cancer Society ...
Stakeholders also agreed with the proposal to include active case finding to detect obesity in black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups. Several stakeholders commented that men, children and ...
He said people like himself, who were living with obesity or who were overweight ... "It's not just a black and white diagnosis based on a single measurement, it's complicated.
BROWNSVILLE — It was an unusually cold Saturday morning in the Rio Grande Valley but that didn't stop hundreds of people from forming a line that wound throughout the south side of the Brownsville ...