When we talk about high blood pressure, we often picture an adult in their midlife with strips of medicine and maybe a diet ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The Trump administration is making a significant effort to reduce the cost of weight loss drugs. Its agreement with pharmaceutical giants, announced Nov. 6, 2025, will reduce the ...

In the United States, approximately 14.7 million children and adolescents between the ages of 2 and 19 are living with ...

"We forget that our kids only get one mom, and they deserve the best, happiest version of her," Theresa Hawkins told Newsweek ...

Surging childhood obesity has driven rates of high blood pressure in kids to almost double since 2000, an analysis suggests.

Rates of high blood pressure in children have almost doubled since the year 2000 amid rising levels of childhood obesity, ...

The Yale team defined BMI-defined obesity using well-established threshold set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatric ...

(The Center Square) – The Michigan State School Board of Education voted to endorse the Invest in MI Kids ballot measure. It passed it by a vote of 5-2. “Michigan schools have been underfunded for ...

It's not the number on your scale, BMI, or even waist circumference—this endocrinologist's assurance is a new way of tracking your progress. When you’re trying to maintain a healthy weight, tracking ...

The first time I remember seeing weight loss ads, I was 11 years old. As a child of the ’80s and ’90s, I had a subscription to Seventeen magazine, which featured ads about weight loss and "fat camps" ...

The kids are alright — on GLP-1s, that is. A new study found that the blockbuster treatment Mounjaro can dramatically lower blood sugar and body weight in children as young as 10 with Type 2 diabetes.

Recent research shows that the share of adolescents who were prescribed weight loss medications tripled nationally between 2020 and 2023. About 75% of weight is determined by genetics, said Dr. Nancy ...