Summary: Is there a connection between weight loss surgery and suicide? Studies suggest that weight loss surgery may lead to an increased risk of suicide in post-surgery patients. There is certainly a lot being said these days about the benefits of weight loss surgery. But you have to dig a little deeper to find the [...]

If you ever wanted to know how Lap-Band surgery works (using the LAP-BAND® System) — I mean really wanted to know — then you should check out this webcast of an actual Lap-Band procedure taking place. In the third webcast of its kind, surgeons from Sentara CarePlex Hospital in Hampton and Sentara Norfolk General Hospital [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday I saw a CNN story about the 12 year old girl who underwent Lap Band surgery recently. I meant to blog about the story yesterday but forgot. Then I got a reminder this morning when her story appeared on another news channel. Apparently, she is becoming quite the celebrity. But this is actually the [...]

HealthGrades study: Bariatric surgery patients have fewer complications at high-volume hospitals Patients at 5-star hospitals have 64 percent fewer complications compared to those at 1-star hospitals GOLDEN, Colo. (July 30, 2007) — Bariatric surgery patients had 64 percent fewer complications and a 26 percent shorter hospital stay if they went to a five-star rated hospital [...]

Star Jones, former co-host of “The View,” recently broke her silence about having weight loss surgery. In an article for Glamour magazine, the celebrity shares her battles with weight and her decision to undergo gastric bypass surgery for weight loss. She has written a first-person account of her weight issues, her surgery and more, and [...]

A local news website in Kitsap, Washington just ran a story about a 12-year-old girl who underwent in gastric banding surgery (using the LAP-BAND System). According to the mother, none of the U.S. bariatric surgeons they contacted wanted anything to do with Lap-Band surgery on a 12-year-old, so they went to Tijuana, Mexico to have [...]