Racial disparities in childhood obesity have risen due to social determinants, food insecurity, and systemic barriers, ...

The new federal estimates are spurring concerns about the health of U.S. children — and the way Trump administration health ...

Obesity rates for Black children and adolescents are 22.4% in the decade before the pandemic and 35% in the 2 years after the ...

Obesity was significantly more prevalent in Black and Hispanic children and adolescents compared with their non-Hispanic White peers and was potentially exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a study ...

The Trump administration eliminated the CDC team that developed national guidelines for prescribing contraception safely for millions of women with underlying medical conditions.

What does the fracturing of vaccine advice and policy mean for the U.S. health care ecosystem? Will the potential head of the Centers for Disease Control ...

One in every three Guam adults has obesity, based on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s newly released 2023 adult obesity prevalence map.