New primary care models, increased access to medications and surgery, and more clinical training may help more patients. 

A study of a large cohort of children and adolescents suggests that childhood obesity rates have spiked during the COVID-19 era.

In a subset of patients the hormone leptin can be leveraged as a therapeutic agent to move fat out of the liver.

A new study assesses the impact of bariatric surgery on patients with end stage kidney disease.

Being overly restrictive with children’s diets might not be the best strategy; most finicky eaters maintain a healthy childhood weight.

Researchers are excited about the prospect of incorporating polygenic risk scores to predict obesity, but a new study finds genetics adds little to what’s already discovered in clinic.