Researchers have found that girls with anorexia, despite being emaciated, have strikingly high levels of fat in their bone marrow. This can be visualized in MRIs of the knee. The researchers believe ...

Young patients who starve themselves risk bradycardia, anemia, bone loss—and even death. Yet few patients receive proper care, experts say. She’s starving but not hungry and skeletally thin but says ...

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder typically characterized by an overestimated body shape and size and atypical eating behaviors leading to an extremely low body mass index (BMI). These ...

Last month, Newsweek tried to put a new face on anorexia. No, not the doe-eyed brunette on the magazine’s cover, but the article inside trumpeting the latest theory about the disease: It’s genetic.