The RESPOND trial adapted to COVID-19 disruptions by shifting to a cluster-parallel randomized design, enabling analysis ...

Establishing habits in children can help to prevent childhood obesity, a rising problem in the US. Childhood obesity is on the rise in the US, with the CDC estimating approximately 1 in 5 children ...

New research shows that weight loss medications can stop the progression of prediabetes. Experts don’t all agree on such a ...

Doctors treat and prevent childhood obesity by changing diets and increasing ... health conditions at a young age or later in life. Some of these include type 2 diabetes, asthma, and hypertension.

An assessment of 2014 health data conducted by researchers from the Cleveland Clinic and the New York University School of Medicine found obesity to be the top cause of preventable life-years lost.

Text messages and other online feedback can help prevent obesity in very young children ... pediatric office visits become less frequent past a child's first year of life, the researchers reasoned.

The researchers say this study may be one of the first ever to prevent early childhood obesity, particularly in a large group of diverse participants. Perrin indicated that research shows most ...

Image Provided by Sophia Pena More than half of Americans who are living with obesity or overweight can’t stop thinking about ... Throughout her life, the constant thoughts about food ebbed ...

A health literacy-informed digital intervention improved child weight-for-length trajectory across the first 24 months of life and reduced childhood obesity at 24 months. The intervention was ...

Endevica Bio has launched a new spin-off company, Abisati, to accelerate its obesity candidate into clinical trials. The ...

Infants whose families received ongoing text message-based health behavior counseling in addition to clinic-based counseling ...