CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Last fall, the Cleveland Clinic named "bariatric surgery for diabetes" its top medical innovation of 2013. The Clinic used to pay for the surgery for employees who had uncontrolled ...

The American Medical Association announced it has adopted recommendations deemphasizing the use of body mass index as a measurement in medicine. The group now recommends considering BMI along with ...

There are lots of ways to tell if you need to lose weight.You can climb on a scale, measure your waist circumference, or calculate your BMI or body mass index.Dr. Karen Cooper, an obesity expert at ...

The body mass index has been used by the medical community to identify whether someone is the right weight. It’s calculated by dividing your weight by the square of your height. But it’s actually a ...

WASHINGTON — Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty – or ESG – successfully treated obesity in a new study showing its efficacy, safety and reproducibility outside the centers that launched the procedure ...

Central obesity in normal-weight people places them at greater risk of death than does overall overweight or obesity in people without the excess abdominal fat, a new study suggests. The startling ...

BVI America, a subsidiary of the 3-D body and weight measurement software provider Select Research, unveiled its BVI Pro tablet app. BVI America created the app through a decade-long collaboration ...

In the U.S., nearly 100,000 babies were born through assisted reproductive technology, such as in vitro fertilization, in 2021, and as people postpone parenthood to older ages, such technologies are ...

Heart disease patients have another reason to bemoan their bellies. In a study being published this month, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester conclude that patients with both coronary artery ...

Q: I recently read that a Mayo Clinic study says I can be a normal weight for my height but still be considered obese. Can you explain? A:This condition is known as normal-weight obesity. Because ...

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