Her whole attitude changed, and she's so much happier." This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: What is ARFID?

Her little one suffers from pica - an unusual eating disorder which sparks sufferers' cravings for inedible household objects. The little one has even been caught smashing up a photo frame to try ...

A woman with an extremely rare condition who must stand while she ... “I was rapidly losing weight and developing a fear of eating.” After going and back and forth with the doctor, Elise ...

Patients taking a commonly used stimulant for the treatment of binge eating disorder experienced mixed results, according to ...

The Colorado law, which took effect last year, prevents a person's BMI from determining care or treatment for eating disorders.

A rare disease is defined in the U.S. as a condition that affects less than 200,000 people, but this does not make them any less significant than more common diseases. Find the support ...

Racial discrimination, bullying, sexism and other forms of discrimination have also been shown to increase the risk for eating disorders. The pandemic-related isolation that sent many adolescents ...

Not that I had an eating disorder, at least not in the sense that I ever starved myself or made myself sick after meals. But back then, negative thoughts about my body consumed me in a way that ...

The cause of rare diseases is increasingly being detected through genome sequencing, which involves reading the entire human DNA by first breaking it into small pieces-short reads. Christian ...

Warning: This article contains content about eating disorders that may be distressing for some readers. Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, or ARFID, is an eating disorder almost as common ...

Lives are being lost and families torn apart because of "woefully inadequate care" for people with eating disorders, according to a group of MPs. The "alarming" rise in disorders such as anorexia ...