Thursday, February 17th, 2011
There was very important news that broke yesterday with respect to the availability of the lap-band as a treatment option for the obese. The FDA voted to expand the use of the Lap-Band for people with a Body Mass Index of 30 or greater with at least one obesity related medical condition. Until now the [...]
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
A recent study published in the Journal of The American College of Surgeons demonstrated a link between obesity and certain cancers in women. The group from The University of VIrginia concluded that morbidly obese women who had undergone bariatric surgery had less cancers than a similar group of women that had not undergone weight loss [...]
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Obesity surgery-related complications in the United States fell by 21 percent between 2001 and 2006. These dramatic results were based on an analysis of more than 9,500 patients under age 65 who had bariatric surgery between 2001 and 2002 and between 2005 and 2006. This study was done by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and [...]
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
There has been a glaring omission in the Clinical Practice Recommendations of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), until now. Despite numerous studies over the past decade that have shown how effective weight loss surgery is in managing diabetes, surgery has not been included in the ADA recommendations. This changed in Jan. 2009 when a section [...]