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Diabetics who undergo weight-loss surgery have been found to need fewer medications and have lower health-care costs. Around 75 percent of obese patients with Type 2 diabetes were able to stop insulin and other blood-sugar controlling drugs within six months of bariatric surgery, according to a...

If the waistlines of Americans continue to expand, the U.S. will fork out about $344 billion in medical-related expenses by 2018. That will use up about 21% of health care spending, according to the first analysis that examines just how heavy the price tag of being overweight is. The projections...

Americans are paying billions for what experts call "treatable illnesses." But the exorbitant amount we're paying, a new report says, is growing exponentially. Currently, the U.S. is spending more per capita on health care than any other nation. And much of this excess spending is going to treat...

A pretty interesting combination of companies are banding together to help combat obesity, particularly among kids. The newly formed Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation claims to be launching "a national, multi-year effort designed to help reduce obesity -- especially childhood obesity -- by...

Among weight loss pills, the Holy Grail is a drug that is safe and really zaps the fat. As of now, the search is still on. Obesity drug lorcaserin got the safety part down: results from a very large trial -- 4,008 patients -- didn't appear to show the heart valve problems associated with some...

As if it's not bad enough that many Americans have lost jobs and retirement money to the recession, many of them are getting fatter, too. According to a Gallup-Healthways poll, the number of people in the U.S. who tip the scales as obese rose 1.7%, or 5.5 million, in the past year. In the first...

We all know that you can't take heavy luggage on a plane anymore without being charged. But United Airlines, in an attempt to rain on the parade of the "you can have your cake and eat it, too," crowd, has just announced that people packing extra pounds may pay more for their ticket as well....

Today is National Diabetes Day, and the folks at Webvet are trying to make people aware that dogs and cats are facing their own mini-epidemic of diabetes. It's not anywhere near as severe as the human spread of the disease. About one in 400 dogs and cats now has diabetes compared to one in 12...