Researchers at Boston-based Mass General Brigham developed an Epic tool that identifies older patients at risk for emergency care, readmission or death based on frailty levels. The electronic frailty ...

Greaux Healthy—a public service initiative powered by Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in partnership with the State of Louisiana—has released the Childhood Obesity Prevention, Evaluation and ...

Teenagers who perceive themselves as overweight are three times more likely to consider self-harming, warns new research. The ...

When it comes to achieving healthy body weight, some men might look to what’s average and use that as their goal. For ...

8 (UPI) --Many prominent healthcare organizations are urging the ... regional and state health data was removed from the CDC and FDA websites on Jan. 31 as part of a federal government data ...

As a precaution, the CDC is urging U.S. healthcare organizations to reinforce Ebola preparedness protocols amid a newly confirmed outbreak in Uganda. The outbreak, caused by the Sudan virus ...

The American Medical Association (AMA), as well as other medical organizations around the world, recommend against healthcare providers using BMI as a sole indicator of health and as a means to ...

BMI is a dated, flawed measure ... According to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), based on data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ...

These individuals have a lower risk of many diseases. BMI is a screening tool commonly used to assess a person's weight in relation to their height. The tool provides a general evaluation of a ...

Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images Federal health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are essential for keeping ...

Local healthcare organizations are reassuring Spokanites ... At the end of January, several of the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) website pages and datasets were taken down, following ...

The CDC has begun restoring some of the files it ... partly in response to media coverage and concern from healthcare providers. However, some of the restored files are still difficult to access ...