Well-to-do and better-educated Americans have far lower rates of heart disease than the rest of the population, a ...

The belt-tightening measures come as colleges nationwide scale back hiring as the Trump administration seeks to cut public funding for research.

University of Washington students won the grand prize at the UW's Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge for their ...

The obesity diagnosis has always been controversial. Now, a new clinical definition is raising even more questions.

Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much ...

Provost Tricia Serio said UW has a "good financial position," but unprecedented federal policy changes have increased the ...

Not necessarily — but it’s complicated. For years, body size was considered a barrier to most sports, but today that’s ...

A bill moving through the Washington Legislature would require insurance companies to follow one set of standards for mental ...

Eating butter raises the risk of heart disease, cancer, and premature death, a new study finds, while eating olive oil and ...

India could have over 440 million obese and overweight people, a global analysis published in The Lancet journal has ...

Weight-inclusive health care is the provision of equitable care without perpetuating weight stigma among patients of all body ...