If you’ve ever held a newborn baby, you may have noticed a layer of soft, downy hair over their body. This hair, known as lanugo, usually goes away within a couple of weeks. But lanugo can also show ...

Anorexia nervosa is a serious mental health condition that involves changes in eating habits, among other symptoms. It can start in childhood. Anorexia nervosa usually affects people in their teenage ...

Anorexia is a severe psychiatric condition and the eating disorder with the highest mortality rate. Without treatment, it can cause health complications that may lead to multiple organ failure. Also ...

Patients with anorexia nervosa are at significantly increased risk for cardiovascular conditions such as congestive heart failure and cardiac arrest compared with people without an eating disorder, ...

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that occurs when a person refuses to eat an adequate amount of food or is unable to maintain a minimally healthy weight for their height—a body mass index below ...

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that many people have heard about but don’t fully understand. It’s no wonder: Stereotypes about anorexia abound, making it difficult to know what’s true or false ...

Constipation in anorexia is more than just infrequent bathroom trips. It’s a side effect of how the eating disorder affects gastric function. Anorexia nervosa, often called “anorexia” for short, is an ...

A new study is describing a potential biomarker to identify a person’s risk of developing anorexia nervosa. The research proposes measuring levels of anxiety alongside a specific type of twitching eye ...

a distorted body image an irrational fear of weight gain or being overweight a fixation on controlling weight and body size People with anorexia often use extreme measures to maintain or lose their ...

What is atypical anorexia, and how does it affect people who don’t fit the stereotype of living with an eating disorder? When Latoya Shauntay Snell collapsed on a New York subway platform, she thought ...