Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends a swearing in ceremony for Dr. Mehmet Oz to be ...

There are no blood or biologic tests for autism; it is diagnosed by making judgments about a child's behavior. Research has ...

Wales has a "significant problem" with childhood obesity, according to one expert ... "I understand why they do it, to gather statistics for an overall population, but it's not accurate in ...

A recent study shows that traditional insulin resistance measures such as HOMA-IR are more predictive of insulin resistance ...

New York lawmakers are pushing to strengthen laws banning false, predatory marketing and advertising for unhealthy foods to curb childhood obesity.

Kavitha Cardoza, a journalist for the Hechinger Report, is one of the few people who has looked into education outcomes for kids with childhood obesity. And there's one trailblazer in Arizona trying ...

The stakes are crystal clear as nearly one-third of New York's children are obese of overweight, state lawmakers noted, ...

It's easy to dismiss a little extra weight on children as 'baby fat' or something they can grow out of. But now, with more kids sitting in front of screens all day eating junk food, obesity is ...

A new study led by Professor Sayaka Nakamura from Sophia University in Japan and Professor Shiko Maruyama from Jinan ...