Your Body Mass Index (BMI) is often an indicator to diagnose obesity. Combating obesity is paramount to overall health. According to The National Health Institute, 1 in 3 adults are considered ...

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that nearly all adults identified as having obesity based on body mass index ...

"You should have a minimum of three bowel movements per week, preferably one a day. A patient from the ER started vomiting ...

A new analysis links higher triglyceride-glucose (TyG) and TyG–body mass index (TyG-BMI) levels to increased colorectal ...

The CDC epidemiologists were set to join more than 40 state and local volunteers as well as 11 other CDC public health trainees in the Asheville area. Instead, the CDC team received notifications ...

CDC Shuts Down Key Labs for Hepatitis and STI Testing After Layoffs MONDAY, April 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Key labs at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have shut down ...

Specific recommendations for adolescents (<18 years) Prepregnancy BMI cut-points based on CDC BMI charts; weight gain in upper range of the recommended values Prepregnancy BMI cut-points based on ...

Risk factors contributing to LBP worldwide have shifted between 1990 and 2021, with high BMI increasingly impacting years lived with disability due to LBP.