People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.

A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

There may be a more effective way to define and diagnose obesity, according to a commission of scientists that proposed a ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation ... expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

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When Northwestern Memorial Hospital charged nearly three times what it had estimated the procedure would cost, he wanted to know why. Taylor Glascock / KFF Heath News Share Tom Contos is an avid ...

A common breakfast food that many of us add to our cereal each morning is associated with a lower BMI and could even boost your gut health. In fact, the full-fat version of Greek yoghurt is linked ...

Once a promising startup looking to commercialize Northwestern University-developed nanotech ... were open to selling the company off to non-health care companies for its stock listing alone.

Chandel is an investigator with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and a professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “This research ...

Xiaoning Huang, Ph.D., from the Northwestern University Feinberg ... of these patterns with body mass index (BMI) using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2000 ...

While BMI may be associated with these health conditions ... She received a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and lives in the Chicago suburbs with ...