A new multinational study from the INTERCOVID Consortium, including Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, has ...

Just over one in 10 deaths from a wide range of infectious diseases can be attributed to obesity worldwide, finds a major new ...

New research shows obesity increases the risk of severe infections, hospital stays, and death across the world.

Researchers also estimated that roughly one in 10 infection-related deaths globally could be linked with obesity. Obesity is widely recognised as a driver of long-term conditions such as type 2 ...

A study in The Lancet reveals obesity raises severe infection risk by 70%. Linked to 1 in 10 global infection deaths in 2023, it highlights a dual health burden for rising economies like India.

The consequences of the anti-vaccine movement reach beyond today’s controversies. Scott Gottlieb is a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. He serves on the boards of Pfizer and ...

I’ve spent a large part of my professional life working to improve the health of our Louisiana children. As the executive ...

Because measles is so contagious, experts say that vaccination rates need to be above about 95 percent to stem the spread of ...

Lily, 21, from Retford has been told she is too heavy for surgery - even though her breasts weigh five stone alone ...

Presentation raises questions about EBV timing. Dalia Rotstein, MD, of the University of Toronto, discussed the findings and their implications in an oral presentation at the Amer ...

Wild bears are prone to contracting parasitic infections. Some of the most common are intestinal parasites. In most cases, ...