Overweight & Obesity

New guidance: Use drugs, surgery early for obesity in kids

Children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively, including with medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those as young as 13, according to new guidelines released Monday.

Overweight & Obesity

How much money is too much for obesity treatments?

A new generation of effective weight loss drugs is now available in the U.S., but the drugs' high cost highlights a reality hurting the nation's economy and those who want to shed pounds: Obesity is expensive, and so are ...

Cardiology

Bariatric surgery decreases risk of heart disease

A Rutgers study of obese adults, all with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and morbid obesity (body mass index > 40), has shown that those who underwent bariatric surgery suffered far fewer extreme cardiovascular ...

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