“Ooooh, she thick!” That’s usually a phrase that is used in a good way. Some men say they don’t want a woman who is too skinny, so being “thick” is in. But what is “too thick” when it comes to our ...

Health workers have been deployed across each of the country's 81 regions with weighing scales and tape measures as the drive ...

For the first time, scientists have pitted the two most popular weight loss drugs against each other in a direct competition ...

There are more than 1,000 confirmed cases of measles nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday, as outbreaks of the highly contagious illness spread across Texas ...

The findings remained unaltered by the girls’ body mass index (BMI) or height, both of which have been associated with the earlier onset of periods. The study has implications for health in ...

It gets better: This Bluetooth-powered scale has 13 body composition measuring functions, including body fat, body mass index (BMI), bone mass and protein, so it's much more than a standard scale ...

Similar to the 1990 recommendations, they are specific for maternal prepregnancy BMI categories; however, there are several key revisions incorporated into the new recommendations: ...

Patients with severe asthma account for 4.6% of all asthma patients in Finland and are more likely to be female, older, and have higher body mass index (BMI) and blood eosinophils than patients with ...

The CDC provide a tool for calculating the BMI of children aged 2–18 years. To use it, a person needs to know: the child’s weight, in pounds the child’s height, in inches their child’s age ...

Conclusion: RFM is strongly associated with CRC prevalence in US adults. Further large-scale prospective investigations are warranted to for verification. This research utilized data from the National ...

The CDC represents 91% of all HIV prevention funding. Eliminating these programs would have a significant impact on the prevention and treatment of this virus in the US. Amid ongoing job and funding ...

Several committee members of the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee have received termination notices, MedPage Today reported April 29. 1. HICPAC develops guidance ...