In the first of this two-part Spotlight series, we break down the debate around the issue, and its implications for health ...

Health workers have long relied on Body Mass Index to gauge whether people are within a healthy weight range. Now, top researchers have made the case for a new way to understand and diagnose obesity.

Despite an increase in the prevalence of prescribing, only 0.5% of U.S. adolescents with obesity were prescribed an obesity ...

0.5 percent with obesity were prescribed an obesity medication in 2023; 83 percent of prescriptions received by teens with severe obesity ...

June marks Men’s Health Month, yet many South African men remain reluctant to visit clinics or talk about their health. A professional nurse explains why and what can be done to change that.

HIV is surging among adults over 50 in sub-Saharan Africa, yet prevention and treatment campaigns still focus mainly on the ...

News24 Life explores South Africa’s alarming screen time statistics and urges parents to reflect on their habits as a ...

The false claims that Israel is killing the invasive population in Gaza with hunger is false, but the massive truckloads of aid being brought in to save the Hamas supporters from a famine that doesn’t ...

June marks Men’s Health Month, yet many South African men remain reluctant to visit clinics or talk about their health. A professional nurse explains why and what can be done to change that.

The surge in diabetes among young people highlights critical gaps in care and the urgent need for comprehensive preventative ...

The US-based team specifically noted that higher phytosterol intake was associated with markers of improved insulin ...

Machine learning models can accurately predict which babies are at risk of being born with low birth weight, enabling earlier ...