By Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN Social media’s negative effects on mental health and eating disorder risk in children and adolescents have received significant media and research attention. Similarly, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NHS data has revealed that the number of children with eating disorders has doubled over the last eight years. Some patients are ...

Clinicians, researchers and activists have stressed the need for better treatment and services of people with eating disorders who don’t fit the stereotypical patient profile — and recent data ...

Hospitalizations of children with eating disorders increased by 139% in Ontario, Canada, from 2002 to 2019, data indicate. The largest relative increase was among patients who usually are considered ...

There was a disproportionate rise in pediatric eating disorder hospitalizations among males, younger adolescents, and individuals with eating disorder diagnoses other than anorexia or bulimia, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The NHS bill to treat children with mental health problems is being driven by a rise in eating disorders, researchers say. The ...

The number of sufferers is thought to be around 3.5 million - three times more than the 2017 estimate of 1.25 million, ...