This morning while driving into work, the radio station I was listening to was discussing the use of BMI "report cards" in schools. Basically, children would receive a handout with their calculated ...

BMI is a 53-year-old metric that 58 expert researchers suggest officially needs an update—here's what they say is the more ...

Trying to determine the impact your body shape and weight have on your health and well-being isn't an exact science. Healthcare providers often use a simple calculation called body mass index, or BMI, ...

Warning: this article contains the topic of eating disorders. The nurse told me to sit back down and I shuffled the short distance, my legs starting to tremble and my breath quickening. She tapped on ...

New changes to the classic BMI measurement system are being called for by a coalition of experts from the European Association for the Study of Obesity. The proposed reform could see countless people ...

A recently-published study suggests that a body "roundness" index may be a better measure of health than body mass index (BMI). The article, called "Body Roundness Index and All-Cause Mortality Among ...

New findings demonstrated that adult patients with breast cancer and increased BMI had an association with different types of immune cells around their tumors that may affect how their body attacks ...

A new wearable brain-machine interface (BMI) system could improve the quality of life for people with motor dysfunction or paralysis, even those struggling with locked-in syndrome – when a person is ...

Researchers are calling for changes to the BMI system to ensure BAME people who are at risk of type 2 diabetes do not “slip through the net”. The study, involving 1.5 million people in England, found ...

Trying to determine the impact your body shape and weight have on your health and well-being isn't an exact science. Healthcare providers often use a simple calculation called body mass index, or BMI, ...