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  • A narrative review found obesity independently worsens psoriasis severity and blunts response to fixed-dose biologics, prompting calls for weight-adapted treatment selection.

  • A new study reveals a major gap in obesity care and highlights opportunities for physicians to better support patients' long-term health.

  • But data have started to emerge demonstrating that an overlooked but equal driver: the father, whose genetics, habits, and environment shape child obesity risk from preconception to postconception and .

  • Around seven million more adults are living with obesity than would have been if obesity rates had stayed the same as 1993.

  • The trial will assess the tolerability and safety of single ascending doses of NBIP-'1968 in overweight or obese adults.

  • Adults with elevated BMI in the US and Japan remain underdiagnosed for obesity, even as interrelated disease rates stay high, according to a large observational study.

  • Obesity treatment can include GLP-1 medications, non-surgical procedures such as ESG stomach tightening and short-term gastric balloons, and traditional bariatric surgery.

  • A new approach to defining obesity could help physicians better determine which patients need more intensive treatment by focusing on the effects of excess adiposity on organs and tissues rather than .

  • Global obesity headlines almost always point in one direction: rising numbers, ballooning health costs, and countries where more than a third of adults now qualify as obese.

  • Obesity and excess adiposity are major public health problems in China and Asia,1 but recognition and treatment have been constrained by BMI thresholds defining obesity derived from standards defined .

  • India’s obesity-care market is set to rise as demand for treatment increases.

  • Ji Linong, executive president of the China Obesity Congress and professor at Peking University People's Hospital, delivers a speech at the 2026 China Obesity Congress in Beijing on Aug 8.