A weight-maintaining hormone is essential for brain-signal transmission. New research is more closely linking obesity to ...

Obesity is a disease characterized by having excessive body fat, increasing a person’s risk for many serious health problems, ...

It’s a brain disease,” a prominent obesity doctor explained on a “60 Minutes” episode about the drugs. “Obesity is disease” ...

Australian researchers said that supervised diets with intermittent fasting were for children with serious health conditions, ...

Three scientists were recognized by the Lasker Awards for their work on the GLP-1 hormone. Others were honored for work to ...

The European Medicines Agency backed the use of Novo Nordisk's popular drug Wegovy to help ease heart failure in people with ...

By Maggie Fick and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen LONDON/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Novo Nordisk's shares fell nearly 5% on Friday after ...

Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen have detected lipid biomarkers in children and teenagers with obesity that indicate an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, liver and heart ...

In this morning’s readout from Novo's phase 2 trial of monlunabant in 243 people with obesity and metabolic syndrome, it ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics said aggressive obesity interventions would not fuel eating disorders. But authors of the ...

Exchange-traded funds, commonly known as ETFs, are security baskets where a collection of investments is pooled. Like stocks, ...