A Wisconsin teen was allegedly starved by morbidly obese family members. The severely malnourished teen was found 'gravely ill.' Your neighbors may be driving up your utility bill—watch out for this ...

WAISTLINES IN AMERICA have been growing for decades. Now there are signs that the country may finally be slimming down. A year ago the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that ...

Take horror fans, who, despite (or because of) their reliable financial support of the cultural industry, are a much maligned cohort. Scrivner sets the tone with a review of an entry of the Saw ...

What makes us peek at a car wreck or binge-watch true crime shows late into the night? Why are some of us drawn to horror movies while others shudder at the thought? From grisly serial killers to ...

On Halloween night, chances are you'll be watching something spooky, and you’re far from alone. Horror is the fastest-rising film genre in the U.S., more than quadrupling its market share in the past ...

At first blush, the plots of many horror movies don’t seem particularly appealing. Take “The Shining”: A murderous psychopath tries to kill his family in a haunted, secluded hotel. But horror movies ...

Over the past 20 years, Google search-trend data for the term horror movie have looked like heartbeat pulses on a cardiac monitor. Each October, searches spike as people seek out a good fright. Morbid ...

“Dangerously Obese,” an all-new medical docuseries starring renowned bariatric surgeon, Dr. Charles Procter (“1000-LB Sisters,” “1000-LB Best Friends”), premieres Wednesday, October 22, at 9 p.m. ET ...

In the premiere, a woman named Natalie and her bedridden mother, Felicia, will come into focus. They have both struggled with obesity for the entirety of their adult lives. The series will star Doctor ...

The brand new health and wellness reality series Dangerously Obese premieres on TLC Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 9/8c. During the series premiere episode, Dr. Procter is introduced to a mother and daughter ...

Michigan's new bipartisan state budget will limit Medicaid coverage of a group of weight loss drugs whose use has exploded in popularity in recent years. GLP-1 receptor agonists like Wegovy, Saxenda ...

A Scottsdale Unified School District employee says a board member called her "morbidly obese" during a public meeting. Board member Carine Werner claims the comment was part of a private conversation ...