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Laparoscopic Surgery Making Doctors Tired
Laparoscopic surgery, a minimally invasive surgery that uses a tiny camera for the doctor to view the area of the body they are operating on from a monitor, creates less scars, thus meaning faster recovery time for the patient and a lower chance of infection. However, while laparoscopic procedures like the LAP-BAND® are a...



Bariatric Surgeons Feel Confident About Weight Loss Surgery
With the success of weight loss surgery in the past few years, bariatric surgeons feel confidence that medically assisted weight loss is safe for the obese persons.Studies ha...
Weight Loss Surgery Industry Climbing
Despite the recession, 2009 saw a rise in the weight loss surgery industry, with 350,000 bariatric procedures performed last year.  According to healthcare market resear...
Weight Loss Surgery Can Prove Fatal
Failure to adhere to bariatric surgery guidelines can lead to needless deaths, reports NaturalNews.com. According to Dr. Anoop Misra, Director of the Department of Diabetes a...
Study: Hospital restrictions help weight-loss surgery patients
Bariatric surgery complication and mortality rates have decreased since the federal government imposed restrictions on the which facilities are able to perform these surgerie...




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Weight-loss surgery may put bones at risk
An early analysis of date from a 2009 Mayo Clinic study shows that one in five bariatric surgery patients experienced a brok...
ABBM certifies 72 medical professionals for treatment of bariatric medicine
Seventy-two  medical professionals recently passed the certification exam offered by the American Board of Bariatric Me...
Weight-loss surgery may soon be widely used
Rising obesity rates are leading some surgeons to believe that weight-loss surgery should be more widely accessible. The Amer...
EndoBarrier: An Alternative to Gastric Bypass for Obesity and Diabetes Treatment
A medical device company in Massachusetts, GI Dynamics, has gained approval in Europe to use a non-surgical gastrointestinal ...
Bariatric Surgery Trends and Predictions for 2010 from the Editors of Consumer Guide to Bariatric Surgery
The editors of Consumer Guide to Bariatric Surgery predict that 2010 will see an increase in the number of bariatric surgeri...
Hot treatment promises to ‘freeze the fat’ off
Clinical trials are underway for a new non-surgical procedure that breaks down fat cells through the use of special cooling...
Woman too fat for operation is too thin for weight loss surgery
A British woman who was told she was too heavy for a hernia operation is now being told she is not heavy enough for weight lo...
Bariatric surgery center opens in New Braunfels, TX
A medical and surgical weight loss company in Dallas, Texas, has opened a new facility in New Braunfels, about 35 miles north...
Cutting vagus nerve may help with weight loss
Mehmet Oz, author of You: On a Diet, reports that cutting the vagus nerve can curb a person's appetite. The vagus nerve desc...
Ethicon Endo-Surgery introduces the Echelon Flex Endopath Stapler at the 95th ACS Congress
Ethicon-Endo Surgery has announced the release of the Echelon Flex. Endopath® Stapler, a one-handed device designed to ...
Large-Scale Analysis Finds Bariatric Surgery Relatively Safe
Bariatric surgery is as safe as any routine medical procedure, according to an article from Medical News Today. An analysis...
Obesity Surgery Complications on the Decline
An article from HealthDay News reports that complications related to weight loss surgery declined 21 percent between 2001 an...
Weight Loss Surgery Abroad: Traveling Toward Disaster?
Have you ever thought about combining your vacation and your weight loss surgery? Many people are, and it's called 'Medical T...
Complications and Costs for Obesity Surgery Declining
According to a April 2009 press release by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (which is part of the U.S. Departme...
Choosing the 'Right' Weight Loss Surgery Procedure
The Obesity Action Coalition has another great article about deciding which weight loss surgery procedure is right for you. T...
Choosing a Surgeon, Choosing a Program - What to Ask
The Obesity Action Coalition has a great article by registered Nurse Pam Davis about what questions you need to ask your bar...

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