Today I stumbled across a news story on an ABC News affiliate’s website. There’s also a two-and-a-half-minute video clip that’s packed with information about weight loss surgery, specifically the vertical gastrectomy. Story excerpt: “Scott decided to have a vertical gastrectomy, a relatively new stomach reduction procedure that doesn’t require rerouting the intestines, as with gastric [...]
The Cost of Lap Band Surgery
May 31, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
Before considering the cost of surgery with the LAP-BAND® System, you may want to read our overview of Lap Band surgery. For most people who consider Lap Band surgery (or any type of weight loss surgery for that matter), the cost of the procedure is a top factor in their decision-making. The cost of Lap [...]
TLC Covers the World of Weight Loss Surgery
May 30, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
In a recent post, we mentioned TLC’s new program “Big Love,” which chronicles the lives of obese patients who undergo bariatric weight-loss surgery at Houston’s Methodist Weight Management Center. The show premiered this past Monday, and so far it has generated some significant buzz. Only two days after the show’s premiere, the “Big Love” message [...]
News – Coalition Against Morbid Obesity
May 29, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
The Coalition against Morbid Obesity launches its activities! MONTREAL, May 29 /CNW Telbec/ РToday Jos̩e Roy and Jennifer Schultz, Coalition co-founders, announced the start of the operations of the Coalition against Morbid Obesity, a Qu̩bec-based non-profit organization which relies on the strength of association to reduce waiting lists for bariatric surgery in Qu̩bec. They [...]
Surgery Criteria – New Article
May 29, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
Are you thinking of having bariatric weight-loss surgery to reduce obesity? If you are, it would be wise to review the basic criteria that qualifies patients for weight loss surgery (if you haven’t done so already). Most weight-loss surgeons follow a set of standard criteria when determining whether a patient should have bariatric surgery. These [...]
Weight-Loss Surgeons Can Better Assess Patient Risk
May 27, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
Weight-loss Surgeons Now Can Identify Highest-risk Patients Before Surgery: Leading Bariatric Surgeon Discusses New Assessment Tool’s Role in Making Procedure Even Safer Bariatric surgery is one of the fastest growing segments of elective surgeries in the U.S., climbing from just 10,000 procedures in 1995 to an estimated 200,000+ this year alone. As more and more [...]
Calculating the Cost of Bariatric Surgery
May 24, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
Let me preface this article announcement by saying that a surgeon’s experience should always be a higher priority than the cost of bariatric surgery. The same goes for any type of surgery, for that matter. Now with that public service out of the way, I would like to share a new article with you that [...]
Group Studies Link Between Bariatric Surgery and Neurological Conditions
May 24, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
UAMS Neurologists Report on Link Between Gastric Bypass Surgery and Neurological Conditions LITTLE ROCK — A decade-long study by neurologists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock has found a link between the increasingly popular weight-loss surgery known as gastric bypass and several serious neurological conditions. Katalin Juhasz Pocsine, M.D., [...]
Ali Educates Public on Obesity, Weight-Loss Surgery
May 22, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
Khaliah Ali, Daughter of Muhammad Ali, Leads Obesity Health Education Campaign After Losing More Than 100 Pounds, Ali Shares Her Fight With Obesity to Educate Others About the Emotional and Physical Impact of the Disease IRVINE, Calif., May 22 /PRNewswire/ — Khaliah Ali, fashion designer, author and daughter of former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, experienced [...]
