I write this from a northern suburb of Chicago as I finish my third week of lockdown in response to the novel coronavirus. Our governor has ordered another 30 days of shelter in place. The experience ...

New research shows that weight stigma—and not weight itself—has the biggest impact on mental health and healthy behaviors in the years after weight-loss surgery. Researchers found that patients who ...

At a recent party, another guest, a nurse, asked what I do for a living. I explained that as a health policy researcher, my ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stigma tied to poverty can create a barrier to the very help people need. @felipepelaquim for Unsplash.com, CC BY-SA There are ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines stigma as “a set of negative and often unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something… a mark of shame or discredit.” Borrowed from Latin, ...

Weight-loss surgery reduces weight stigma for most patients. Lower weight stigma, but not lower BMI, is linked to better mental health. Continuing to experience weight stigma raises the risk of mental ...

Shame can shape how early patients get diagnosed, and how aggressively they pursue treatment, if at all. In a 2014 study, Dr.

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