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Two new studies are raising hope that brown fat -- fat that burns calories like a furnace -- may some day be used to help people control their weight.

An 8-year-old Ohio boy weighing 200 pounds was taken by officials who said his mother wasn't doing enough to control his weight. That was the wrong call, says Arthur Caplan, msnbc.com contributor and professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Ohio case workers say mother of severely obese child wasn't doing enough to control his weight

Women are hitting the weight room in record numbers, and a new study found that weight-training injuries among women have jumped a whopping 63 percent. Here are the most common slipups and how to fix them, so you leave the gym strutting — not limping.

A defense contractor decided a man could not do his desk job because he was morbidly obese. The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission says this is against the law. At 600 plus pounds, Ronald Kratz II wasn't having any problem performing his desk job at a defense contractor and had been receiving good evaluations at work.

Overweight patients told by their doctors to go to Weight Watchers lose around twice as much weight as people receiving standard weight loss care over 12 months, according to the findings of a study published on Thursday.

A 16-pound baby born in Longview, Texas holds the new hospital record. JaMichael Brown is more than twice the weight of the average baby--which is about seven pounds. KYTX-TV's Monique Bird has more

A new app lets you track all your meals, gamifying eating healthy and making what you eat a social activity. Is this the new Weight Watchers

For all we understand about the universe, 96 percent of what’s out there still has scientists in the dark. Astronomical observations have established that familiar matter--atoms--accounts for only 4 percent of the weight of the cosmos.

Seven heavy weight diets go toe to toe; who was crowned the weight loss champ?

My lesson with Lars Magnusson seems to be paying off. The 36-year-old founder of Wyoming-based driven-shooting outfitter Blixt & Company has just walked me through the weight-forward, upright-stance, gun-to-cheek position that proper clay and wing shooting demands

UK study finds partners' quirks often become an issue after three-year mark; Weight gain, money, working hours top offenders

Alcohol and your weight have a tricky relationship. Experts have had a tough time nailing down exactly why some women wind up with a beer gut (or butt) while others drink daily and never seem to gain a pound