Obese teens may find it hard to get insurance coverage for weight loss surgery. Coverage for teens under the age of 18 is often hit or miss. Some insurance companies offer it. Others don’t. Flip a coin. This is in stark contrast to the broad coverage offered to adults these days. Over the last ten [...]

How would you like it if your tax dollars went toward an obese person’s weight loss surgery? I guess if you were on the receiving end of the coverage, you would like it just fine. This will soon be happening in the state of Oregon, where government health officials have decided to bankroll some forms [...]

A recent study, presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2010, found that morbidly obese people with heart failure (HF) can benefit from bariatric weight-loss surgery. The study suggested that patients will enjoy various improvements of HF symptoms after having such surgery. The researchers studied the post-surgery results of 13 patients who underwent bariatric [...]

Insurance coverage has always been a hot topic within the field of bariatric weight-loss surgery — and sometimes a bone of contention, as well. Insurance companies (always trying to minimize their coverage costs) argue that weight-loss surgery is an elective procedure that should not be covered by a policy. Doctors and patients, on the other [...]

American Diabetes Association Announces New Research Grant Program in Bariatric Surgery Two Leading Companies Commit $1 Million in Funding to Better Understand Effects of Bariatric Surgery in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes ALEXANDRIA, VA–(Marketwire – November 4, 2010) -  Two of the world’s leading medical device companies in the fields of endoscopic and bariatric surgery [...]

Therapeutic Benefits of Bariatric Surgery on Diabetes Translate Into Significant Economic Benefits SAN DIEGO, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ — New data presented today at Obesity 2010, the 28th annual scientific meeting of The Obesity Society, find that bariatric surgery is associated with reduced healthcare costs for diabetes patients who are morbidly obese. The study, conducted by [...]

Press Release Nationally renowned bariatric surgeon performs first vertical sleeve gastrectomy using TransEnterix SPIDER® Surgical System NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. – Dr. Brian B. Quebbemann, one of the country’s leading experts in minimally invasive bariatric surgery, has successfully performed a single-incision vertical sleeve gastrectomy using the SPIDER® Surgical System. This marks the first time the SPIDER [...]

Press Release Two years after teens undergo bariatric surgery for morbid obesity, abnormalities in their hearts that put them at increased risk for heart attacks in adulthood were dramatically reduced, thanks to significant weight loss. A Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center study shows that the size of the left ventricle in morbidly obese teens dramatically [...]

We have frequently reported on the rising number of weight loss surgeries in the United States. Now it seems the same trend is occurring in the UK, albeit on a smaller scale. The General Healthcare Group, one of the largest health care providers in the UK, has seen a 30-percent increase in weight loss surgery [...]

The NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Illinois offers an innovative technique to reduce weight gain following gastric bypass surgery. The new procedure is referred to as ROSE for short, and it stands for Revisional Obesity Surgery Endolumenal. Nationwide in the U.S., less than a dozen medical centers offer the ROSE procedure. Actually, depending on whom [...]