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Is Bariatric Surgery The Answer To Obesity?

Introduction Against a background of widespread obesity among all US age-groups, and the relative failure of conventional weight loss methods, doctors are increasingly resorting to gastrointestinal surgery in order to curb the rise of weigh
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Secrets of Gastric Bypass Surgery: Lose Weight Without Surgery

There’s more to gastric bypass than surgery and rapid massive weight loss. Patients who undergo weight loss surgery (WLS) sign-up for a lifetime of rigid behaviors to guarantee their long-term success. Just imagine: If you knew what those behaviors
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What is Weight Loss Surgery?

You’ve tried it all: you’ve cut your calories ‘til you feel you’ve starved yourself, but you haven’t lost weight. You’ve run a gazillion miles, from here to the moon –and then even started swimming laps in the local pool, just to make sure you’re doing th
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Weight Loss News and Events

Weight loss surgery helps obese women have healthier babies (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)

Published: Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 5:19 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 4:45 p.m. Women who become pregnant after weight-loss surgery have easier pregnancies and healthier babies than do obese women who become pregnant, researchers reported on Wednesday.

Weight Loss Surgery Helps Obese Women Have Healthier Babies (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

A new report suggests that women who become pregnant after weight-loss surgery have easier pregnancies than do obese women who become pregnant.

Weight-loss surgery helps with pregnancy: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Women who get pregnant after weight-loss surgery tend to be healthier and less likely to deliver a baby born with complications compared to obese women, researchers said on Tuesday.

Some Pregnancy-Related Complications Minimized For Women Who Have Had Weight-Loss Surgery (Medical News Today)

Women who undergo weight-loss surgery, known as bariatric surgery, and later become pregnant after losing weight may be at lower risk for pregnancy-related diabetes and high blood pressure-- complications that can seriously affect the mother or her baby--than pregnant women who are obese, according t

Weight loss surgery may help obese women avoid pregnancy-related health complications (EurekAlert!)

Obese women who have weight loss surgery before becoming pregnant have a lower risk of pregnancy-related health problems and their children are less likely to be born with complications, according to a new study.

Weight loss surgery before pregnancy may benefit both mother and child (New Kerala)

Washington, Nov 19 : A new study ha revealed that obese women who have weight loss surgery before becoming pregnant have a lower risk of pregnancy-related health problems and their children are less likely to be born with complications.

Weight loss surgery may help obese women avoid pregnancy-related health complications (PhysOrg)

Obese women who have weight loss surgery before becoming pregnant have a lower risk of pregnancy-related health problems and their children are less likely to be born with complications, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

Medicare wants limits for weight loss surgery (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Medicare, the U.S. government's largest payer of health care, said on Monday it does not plan to cover weight-loss surgery in diabetic patients who are not dangerously overweight, saying there is not enough evidence to show it can improve their health.

Medicare eyes limits for weight loss surgery (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

The U.S. government's largest payer of health care said on Monday it does not plan to cover bariatric weight loss surgery in diabetic patients who are not dangerously overweight, saying there is not enough evidence to show it can improve their health.

Some Pregnancy-Related Complications Minimized for Women Who Have Had Weight-Loss Surgery (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)

Women who undergo weight-loss surgery, known as bariatric surgery, and later become pregnant after losing weight may be at lower risk for pregnancy-related diabetes and high blood pressure -- complications that can seriously affect the mother or her baby -- than pregnant women who are obese, according to new findings from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that are published in the ...