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No matter where people live, and no matter how active they are, it’s what they eat that appears to drive obesity, according to a major new study. The...

What Is Obesity? A Guide for Older AdultsMar 18, 2025What Are the Pros and Cons of Weight Loss Medications for Older Adults?Apr 08, 2025How to Care fo...

Obesity is a chronic condition that increases the risk of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and certain cancers (1). Obes...

Why it matters About 1 in 5 American children have obesity. Compared to children with healthy weight, children with obesity are at a higher risk for a...

How do I know if I have overweight or obesity? You can use the body mass index (BMI) to find out whether your weight is in a healthy or unhealthy rang...

Treating local recurrence For women whose breast cancer has recurred locally, treatment depends on their initial treatment. If you had breast-conservi...

Why is it hard to find ovarian cancer early? Ovarian cancer is hard to find early because it often does not cause symptoms until the cancer is advance...

OD2A Case Study: Harm Reduction June 9, 2025 At a glance Read about how harm reduction works to reduce drug overdose from a case study from Overdose D...

General Research. Featured Activity Concordance between controlled substance receipt and post-mortem toxicology in opioid-detected overdose deaths: A...

Video length: 3:51 Transcript [Dr. Hansel Tookes] Harm reduction was started by people who use drugs to save each other's lives. [Voiceover] Here on 7...