In order to publish relevant news and information to this bariatric surgery website, I am frequently perusing news websites such as Google, Yahoo, PRWeb and others. In all the stories I encounter about bariatric weight-loss surgery, one topic comes up more than most — insurance coverage for weight loss surgery.
We have covered this topic some [...]
Surgery News | Senior Editor | 
August 24, 2007 8:34 am | 
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Ask any formerly morbidly obese person what his or her life would have been like without weight loss surgery, and they would probably tell you “shorter.”
Weight loss surgeons, and many patients, have long suspected that weight loss surgery prolongs the life of morbidly obese patients by reducing the chance of an early, obesity-related death.
Now there’s [...]
Surgery News | Senior Editor | August 23, 2007 6:28 am | Comments (0)
Metabolic Surgery Expected to Play Bigger Role in Treating Type 2 Diabetes And Other Metabolic Diseases
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Bariatric surgery is known
to be the most effective and long lasting treatment for morbid obesity and
many related conditions, but now mounting evidence suggests it may be among
the most effective treatments for metabolic diseases and [...]
Surgery News | Senior Editor | August 22, 2007 7:40 am | Comments (0)
Keith-Thomas Ayoob, an associate professor in the department of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NYC, has weighed in on bariatric surgery in children.
His commentary comes in the wake of the 12-year-old Texas girl who had liposuction and then Lap-Band surgery in Mexico. The 12-year-old girl, often referred to as the “Lap Band [...]
Surgery News | Senior Editor | August 16, 2007 6:34 am | Comments (0)
We frequently encounter news stories online related to bariatric weight-loss surgery, and we do our best to cover as many of them as possible on this blog.
But few stories go into as much detail or provide as much coverage of the patient’s experience as does this story on TwinCities.com. Kudos to the editorial staff for [...]
Gastric Bypass | Senior Editor | August 15, 2007 6:57 am | Comments (0)