If you are a woman with obesity or overweight and are using oral contraceptives, you should consider also using a barrier method of contraception (e.g. a condom) or switching to a non-oral ...

Researchers have found in a new study that women with anemia or iron deficiency (ID) in early pregnancy who received daily ...

A woman has warned those using blockbuster weight loss jabs that contraception could be useless—after she conceived while on Mounjaro, despite taking The Pill. Natasha Major, 26, from ...

The National Center for Health Statistics measured adults and children to see weight, height and other size trends ...

Maternal Fetal Medicine Doctor: A maternal-fetal medicine specialist is a doctor who helps take care of women having ...

The projections come as National Cancer Institute data notes an increase in uterine cancer cases and deaths over the past 30 ...

If you’re pregnant and have overweight or obesity, your doctor may recommend that you lose weight. Here’s how to do so safely.

Demand for weight-loss drugs, including GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, has surged in the United States. In May 2024, a KFF Health Tracking Poll found that approximately 6 ...

Children born to severely obese pregnant women face up to a 53% higher risk of hospitalization for infections during childhood, especially respiratory and gastrointestinal, due to altered immune ...

Children of fathers who were categorized as obese or overweight based on their body mass index (BMI) around the time of ...