Obesity is often described as a disorder of excess fat accumulation, but a new review argues that this familiar definition...

Hepatic insulin resistance, a metabolic defect that can emerge years before type 2 diabetes, has been linked to a previously...

Young scientists who regularly handle laboratory chemicals and eat relatively few antioxidant-rich foods are more likely to report fatigue, headaches,...

A molecule released by fat tissue could offer scientists an earlier warning that obesity is beginning to damage children’s blood...

WASHINGTON—A person’s waistline may reveal cardiovascular danger that body mass index (BMI) misses, according to a large study published in...

A randomized clinical trial involving 200 adults with obesity in Brazil’s public health care system has raised a familiar but...

A fragile transition begins the moment an extremely low birth weight infant leaves the womb. After months of receiving a...

Hearing impairment is often associated with aging, prolonged noise exposure, or inherited vulnerability. Yet a large prospective study suggests that...

Endometriosis may be linked to a substantially higher risk of type 2 diabetes, according to the largest study yet to...

A short-term decision to eat fewer or no animal products may begin reshaping the human body at the molecular level...