The first clinical studies of an experimental drug have revealed that obese people who take it for 12 weeks lose weight, even at very low doses.

Children treated for hypothyroidism aren't likely to drop pounds with treatment for the condition says a new study in the Journal of Pediatrics. The study is the first to examine the link between hypothyroidism treatment and weight loss in pediatric patients.

A new diet and weight loss plan called 12 Second Sequence by Jorge Cruise is yet another get thin quick book that claims to slim down waistlines within two weeks. Cruise breaks the work out down, focusing on a simplified yet effective eight week resistance training regimen that helps burn fat.

MSN Health & Fitness and NBC's "The Biggest Loser" today announced "The Biggest Loser" Million Pound Match-Up, a challenge to America to lose 1 million pounds during the course of the show "The Biggest Loser: Couples."

A man who says he wasn't allowed to adopt a child because he is obese and underwent gastric bypass surgery to lose weight attended a second adoption hearing last Thursday.

Most normal-weight women -- almost 90 percent in a Cornell study of 310 college students -- yearn to be thinner. Half of underweight women want to lose even more weight, or stay just the way they are, thank you very much.

Researchers saying women who want to lose the extra weight gained in pregnancy should try to get more sleep. They found that mothers who slept five hours or less a day when their babies were six months old were three times more likely than more rested mothers to have kept on the extra weight at one year.

The main problem of western societies is the increasing number of overweight and obese people. Their health problems risk to damage their life. Here there is a possible solution coming directly from the Mediterranean sea...

Just in time for the start of the holiday eating season - a new study finds that dieters who have the tendency to eat in response to external factors, such as at festive celebrations, have fewer problems with their weight loss than those who eat in response to emotions (internal factors).

A team of researchers from the St Vincent’s Campus in Sydney have developed a novel way to control the extreme weight loss, common in late stage cancer, which often speeds death.

Could losing or gaining weight be as simple as flicking a switch in the body? Researchers from St Vincent's Hospital say it might be, finding that manipulating a molecule leads to dramatic weight loss or weight gain - without any apparent side effects.

A major international study says even those who are not overweight should slim down if they want to cut their risk of cancer. The World Cancer Research Fund carried out the largest ever inquiry into lifestyle and cancer and issued several stark recommendations.