The House Labor, Health and Social Services Committee on Wednesday passed the “What is a Woman Act,” which seeks to codify the definition ... Wyoming Equality Director Sara Burlingame and ...

“Long term care is ever-changing: we continue to innovate, find new approaches to quality care, assess our regulatory environment, and seek ways to improve it,” Clif Porter, president and CEO of the ...

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Obesity New Definition: Indian doctors have redefined obesity with new guidelines that consider the unique health challenges faced by the population. Listen to Story Indian doctors have given obesity ...

Roy warned that long-term exposure can lead to dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes and lung cancer, among other diseases. The World Health Organization associates 7 million premature deaths ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other measurements, such as waist circumference, ...

Now health care experts say one-size-does-not-fit-all. It’s been used for more than 100 years but doctors around the world say it’s time to move the field forward when it comes to body mass index.

The commission says its reframing of obesity should help patients receive more appropriate advice and care from their ... this issue.” A new definition of obesity could help people with excess weight ...

The goal of the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on the Definition and Diagnosis ... is a disease requiring access to effective health care. For those with clinical obesity, the focus ...

allowing them to receive more appropriate care, proportional to their needs,” commission member Louise Baur, chair of child and adolescent health at the University of Sydney in Australia ...

Obesity needs a new definition, argues a global group of ... It’s up to individual doctors and health care systems to decide whether to put these guidelines into clinical practice.

By Gina Kolata Obesity should be assessed in a way that goes beyond the standard measure of body mass index, or B.M.I., according to a new definition ... to improve their health and prevent ...