"During the aging process, we begin to lose muscle," typically half a percent to 1 percent of muscle weight per year, said ...

Laboratories are no longer peripheral. They are central to modern clinical development - enabling earlier decision-making, ...

The hospital failed to identify the patient as at-risk for a serious blot clot condition before discharging her, state ...

A dietician has cautioned against placing too much emphasis on a single measurement when evaluating your overall health. Evan ...

Those with a high BMI may face heightened risks of the various health complications linked with excess weight or obesity, ...

STEPHANIE MORENO, referring to her husband, Joseph Alvarado Delgado, who went from weighing 330 pounds to weighing 280 in a year after joining an indoor soccer league in Dallas for men with a body ...

Obesity is one of the most serious and ubiquitous health problems worldwide. Obesity can be defined as a multifactorial ...

YEAR AFTER YEAR, Mary Bucklew strategized with a nurse practitioner about losing weight. “We tried exercise,” like walking 35 minutes a day, she recalled.

Algorithms in clinical decision tools have been making it harder for certain racial and socioeconomic groups to receive the healthcare they deserve.

A new study finds that muscle impairment from anorexia nervosa may continue even after lost weight has been regained, a common indicator of successful treatment.

Despite its flaws, BMI is widely used in medical settings and well known by the public because as a screening tool it’s easy ...