CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Last fall, the Cleveland Clinic named "bariatric surgery for diabetes" its top medical innovation of 2013. The Clinic used to pay for the surgery for employees who had uncontrolled ...

There are lots of ways to tell if you need to lose weight.You can climb on a scale, measure your waist circumference, or calculate your BMI or body mass index.Dr. Karen Cooper, an obesity expert at ...

The body mass index has been used by the medical community to identify whether someone is the right weight. It’s calculated by dividing your weight by the square of your height. But it’s actually a ...

WASHINGTON — Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty – or ESG – successfully treated obesity in a new study showing its efficacy, safety and reproducibility outside the centers that launched the procedure ...

Central obesity in normal-weight people places them at greater risk of death than does overall overweight or obesity in people without the excess abdominal fat, a new study suggests. The startling ...

BVI America, a subsidiary of the 3-D body and weight measurement software provider Select Research, unveiled its BVI Pro tablet app. BVI America created the app through a decade-long collaboration ...

Heart disease patients have another reason to bemoan their bellies. In a study being published this month, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester conclude that patients with both coronary artery ...

It's time to take out the measuring tape. A new study is adding to the growing evidence that waist circumference – not just body mass index (BMI) – is a key predictor for heart disease, cancer, ...

A new study suggests your weight-to-height ratio may reveal heart disease risk more accurately than BMI. Subjects with larger ...