A new generation of weight loss drugs has helped some people lose significant amounts of weight and improve their health.

Alcohol consumption has widespread negative effects on the body, impairing brain function, damaging the liver and heart, and ...

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

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Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and ...

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Police have charged a man with murder in connection with an assault of a 69-year-old man at the East Coast Forensic Hospital in Dartmouth last spring. Two of the children rescued from a Saturday ...