Until recently, a small team issued timely guidance on the types of contraception certain high-risk women should use.

The government’s top vaccine official, working under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., restricted the approval of two ...

Obesity rates for Black children and adolescents are 22.4% in the decade before the pandemic and 35% in the 2 years after the ...

Guam is one of 23 states and two territories with an obesity rate of at least 35%. Before 2013, no state had an adult obesity prevalence at or above 35%, the CDC said.

According to the CDC, 1 in 5 American adults is living with obesity. In recent years, many have turned to weight loss drugs ...

What does the fracturing of vaccine advice and policy mean for the U.S. health care ecosystem? Will the potential head of the ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified in front of largely combative congresspeople on vaccine policy, his MAHA report and more; the ...

The National Center for Health Statistics measured adults and children to see weight, height and other size trends ...

Two new studies are highlighting a dark picture of the obesity epidemic in the United States: one shows the number of obesity-related deaths is on the rise and the other projects a continued increase ...

The CDC also broke down data by education level, showing that 36.5 percent of adults without a high school degree or equivalent have obesity compared to 27.1 percent of college graduates.

The dial on obesity in America is inching backwards for the first time. Jimmy Carter, 39th US president and noted humanitarian, has died Scientists peered into a secret Antarctic lake hidden ...