Medical Dude

Caring for obese people is eating up an ever-bigger slice of the US health care spending pie, a new government report shows. From 2001 to 2006, health care expenditures on obese adults rose from $167 billion [...]

One in seven preschoolers from low-income families in the United States are considered obese, a new government report shows. However, the same report finds that the news is not all bad: The childhood obesity[...]