New guidance to help identify people with eating disorders so they can be treated earlier has been published, after figures showed that hospital admissions for the disease increased by 84% in the last ...

Eating disorders affect more than 5% of young people, and they have one of the highest mortality rates of any mental illness. Young patients with public health insurance have a much harder time ...

Within Health, a digital health startup with a goal of helping people achieve long-term recovery from eating disorders, launched its fully virtual treatment platform today. The company’s approach ...

Among young people with eating disorders, receipt of four to seven sessions of outpatient therapy in the 90 days after hospital discharge lowered the risk for rehospitalization during the following 3 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - It’s a silent struggle many teens may be dealing with right now: more young people are ending up in the hospital because of eating disorders. A recent study from Stanford ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) classifies eating disorders as mental health conditions. Because of that, treatments for eating disorders fall under Original Medicare (parts A and B ...

Beth Ayn Stansfield, 65, realized her own disordered eating habits while helping her daughter through recovery.

October is historically one of the highest-demand months for eating disorder care. Children's Hospital Colorado reports a 73% rise in patients who used its Eating Disorders Program over the last year.

The number of children hospitalised with eating disorders has rocketed by more than 500 per cent in a decade, a major study found. Figures show a two-thirds increase (65 per cent) in under-18s being ...