More than two in five US adults are now classified as obese, and rates are rising across the rest of the world too. It is a chronic disease associated with a costly catalogue of long-term ill health,

One in eight people in the US have tried one of the new weight-loss drugs, such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro, says Emily Anthes in The New York Times. “Fluffy and Fido could be next.” San Francisco

Vaccines prevent the spread of disease and protect people from serious illnesses. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated the last week of April as “world immunisation week”, during which i

Celebrities and the elite have flocked to private healthcare companies to get their hands on a drug which promises thinness. People are spending thousands on weight-loss jabs, even with no medical nee

There was once a time when we were all searching for the next fad diet that promised to help us shed those extra pounds. Now, medical advancements, mindsets and search terms are changing and, instead,

Zipcar reverses out of Britain: Zipcar, the car-sharing group owned by US rental company Avis Budget, is leaving the British market. The UK unit swung to a £4m operating loss in 2024 from a £303,000 p