Bates College provides a student accident insurance plan through Bob McCloskey Insurance (BMI) for the 2024-2025 school year. Enrolled students are covered for Accident Medical Expense Benefits and ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology: global commission proposes major overhaul of obesity diagnosis, going beyond BMI to ...

For the majority of 2024, the S&P US BMI Insurance Index was outperforming the broader market. Insurance technology companies were some of the best performing US insurers on Wall Street over the ...

Surgeons are collaborating with obesity medicine physicians, turning to GLP-1s to help high BMI patients qualify for surgery.

The BMI, a weight-to-height ratio, has been criticised as too simplistic as it cannot distinguish between fat and muscle mass ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure ... A spokesman for the health insurance trade group AHIP, formerly known as America’s Health Insurance Plans, said “it’s too early at this ...