Being overweight has a wide range of health implications. One new study looked at how a pregnant women's weight may affect the child they carry.

Previous studies have shown that the amount of weight that women gain during pregnancy can significantly affect the baby's health. And it's possible that a child's health could be affected throughout childhood and beyond.

Just by taking a look around, one might see that obesity has become a bigger problem over the last several decades. But changes in diabetes rates are less easy to see.

Gastric banding is a weight loss procedure that has been used successfully to control diabetes in severely obese people. The operation may now provide similar benefits to those who are overweight.

In order to address childhood obesity, it's important to know how many children are obese in the US and whether that number is growing or shrinking.

Previous research has suggested that people who have surgery to lose weight tend to drink more alcohol after the surgery, but new research suggests this may not be true.

It's no secret that children's waistlines have grown substantially in the US. This obesity problem not only affects children's health, but also affects their families' wallets.

Obesity can contribute to a range of different health problems, but for pregnant women, those problems may affect two people.

The search for possible causes of autism has gone in a lot of different directions. But finding a link does not mean finding a cause.

Diabetes during pregnancy can mean complications to the infant before and after birth. However, the long-term health issues these babies may face are not very clear.