Suppose you're a teen or young woman who starts putting on fat, mainly in your legs. Doctors say you're obese – but no matter how much you diet and exercise, you can't lose the fat. After years of ...

Liposuction procedure was found to have a long-lasting positive effect in lipedema patients, leading to a marked increase in their quality of life, stated study surveyed in the December issue of ...

Imagine spending 12 years of your life in pain, without knowing the cause. For one Salt Lake City woman, that was her life until she was diagnosed with lipedema, a chronic fat storage disease that ...

Sameerah Al Khdhairi never thought twice about spending hours standing in front of a stove cooking bowls of biryani. Now her time is spent sitting at home, crying and praying. Al Khdairi, who grew up ...

If you’ve ever struggled to get rid of the dimply fat in your legs, hips or arms — despite how much you diet or exercise — with no luck, it may not be from stubborn weight. Similarly, women on GLP-1 ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Imagine a disease where your legs keep growing out of control, not longer, but wider. As CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez reported, it's not just a cosmetic issue, it could be life ...

For years, I was told my swollen, heavy legs were just “stubborn fat” or the result of poor circulation—until I was diagnosed with lipedema, abnormal fat or fluid build-up in the lower part of my body ...

Victoria Albano knows what some people think when they see her - that she just gave up on herself. "All this working out and exercising and all this taking care of myself wasn't doing anything," ...

Lipedema is a chronic and often misdiagnosed condition that affects millions of people worldwide. While researchers are still working to fully understand the underlying causes and risk factors, recent ...

A lipedema patient won her lawsuit seeking to force United Healthcare Insurance Co. to cover six liposuction procedures that cost her nearly $90,000, according to a ruling from a North Carolina ...