In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

A cutting-edge molecular approach provides a detailed picture of the biological pathways associated with childhood obesity ...

The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded.Using body-mass ...

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

Experts say clinical obesity is more than a high BMI and instead is a disease in which excess body fat harms tissues, organs or doing daily activities.

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

Obesity may be a serious health risk for children with cancer, according to a study by Montreal's Sainte-Justine Hospital ...

Background: The longitudinal course of patients with pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (PARDS) is not well described. In this study, we describe the oxygenation index (OI) and oxygen ...

On November 8, she was transferred, while receiving bilevel positive airway pressure, to the pediatric intensive care unit at British Columbia Children’s Hospital with respiratory failure ...

The FDA approval for setmelanotide now includes children aged 2 to 5 years with several rare genetic forms of obesity. Setmelanotide reduced BMI by 18% at 1 year for children participating in the ...