India experiences a surge in Rybelsus sales, impacting the anti-obesity market. Semaglutide dominates, reflecting India's obesity challenge...

According to research firm Pharmarack, the market has tripled in two years after witnessing a sluggish growth till 2021. Over the last five...

Even healthy patients, who weren't obese, showed the same result.

16-year-old Kaylea Titford had spina bifida and was morbidly obese. She was confined to her bed in the months before her death in ‘inhumane...

People are rightly chastised for criticising overweight people as often obesity is involuntary, a consequence of a medical condition or gen...

The experts have strongly recommended a temporary ban on gatherings of groups larger than 10 for the next two months. Significantly, it did...

The program will be digitally driven by a new app that will support virtual consultations, personalized diet and health monitoring, and eng...

A BMC analysis of 9,869 deaths in Mumbai shows the highest case fatality rate (CFR)—deaths as a proportion of cases—is among nonagenarians ...

The body's own microbiota may also be influential in the progression of lung diseases.

Convalescent Plasma Therapy is an experimental procedure where plasma from the blood of a recovered COVID-19 patient is transfused to a cri...

The move is set to benefit many patients as prevalence of obesity in the country ranges from 8-38% in rural areas and 15-30% in urban setti...

Irdai had set up a working group for standardisation of exclusions in health insurance contracts in July this year.

One needs to make basic changes in his/her daily lifestyle to prevent obesity.

The burden of obesity in urban India is increasing alarmingly and around 21% of the total population is over weight.

New York, Nov 29 (IANS) Preventing the development of hypertension, obesity and diabetes in mid-life -- between the age of 45 and 55 years ...

Insurance companies at times refuse to pay claims if the policyholder was fat or in their view “fat" -- putting family members in a fix try...

An obese person has 50 per cent more chance of developing colorectal cancer but it can be reversed through lifestyle changes.