Colonel Jeffrey D. Glover and Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. The new FDA-approved weight loss medicines have changed the game for people with obesity, offering millions of Americans a chance to transform ...

This series was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship. In the empty halls of the Gary ...

Illegal networks are flooding the market with counterfeit weight loss drugs, posing a serious threat to public health. The ...

A national emergency unfolding silently. Every 33 seconds, someone in America dies from cardiovascular disease—nearly 2,500 people daily.

The Black community is especially vulnerable given its higher prevalence of obesity. In 2023, non-Hispanic Black or African American adults were 30% more likely to be obese than non-Hispanic white ...

GLP-1RA discontinuation and lack of reinitiation was more common among patients with obesity and without type 2 diabetes than with type 2 diabetes.

More than half of adults and a third of children and teens worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050, a comprehen ...

Heart disease is a silent epidemic that is having a disproportionate impact on the Black community in New York City’s neighborhoods.

Mitchell Cornet’s job focuses on connecting the public with health education and services. Then he was diagnosed with prostate cancer at the age of 49. “My work is all about early detection ...

This is evidenced in part by a 2023 study in Cureus in which Black adults in the United States have a nearly 50% lower risk of obesity-related deaths than their White counterparts. At the same time, ...