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The April edition of Current Anthropology has published a study that indicates that stigma associated with obesity has spread to parts of the world where a larger figure not so long ago had positive connotations such as wealth, success and fertility...

The NHS Information Centre has published figures that show that prescriptions for weight loss pills have been on the rise over the last few years...

A Canadian research team and a Californian research team have made a breakthrough discovery for the future of malaria treatment...

Experts on obesity including representatives of the Obesity Society and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, to name but a few organisations involved, met with an FDA (Food and Drug Administration) spokesperson on Tuesday to discuss the future of the weight loss drug market as p...

Merck, the manufacturers of popular hair loss treatment, Propecia (Finasteride) has been faced with a lot of bad press recently...