Bariatric surgery is a medical procedure that alters the digestive system to help individuals with obesity lose weight by limiting food intake, nutrient absorption, or both. Globally, obesity has ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. If you’re struggling with weight, you’re not alone. Around 42 percent of American adults have obesity. In addition to nutrition, ...

CHICAGO - The two-page report to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois is a record of failure: 13 diets tried for more than two decades, to no effect. Jeff Flanzbaum, who started a five-year Weight ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lazzati and colleagues enrolled 303,709 adult patients (80.9% women; mean age, 40.2 years) with severe obesity ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Gastric bypass surgery plus a very low-energy diet reduced lipid levels more than a very low-energy diet alone ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A nursing assistant died while undergoing stomach reduction surgery, and the hospital said Thursday it is suspending such operations while it investigates. Brett Davey, spokesman ...

For those whose weight has climbed steadily after years of failing on traditional diets, gastric surgery to reduce the size of the stomach seems almost inevitable. If the stomach pouch is made so ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Patrick Deuel is half the man he used to be. Deuel, 42, was scheduled to leave the hospital as early as Friday, seven months after he checked in in grave condition, at 1,072 ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A nursing assistant died while undergoing stomach reduction surgery, and the hospital said Thursday it is suspending such operations while it investigates. Brett Davey, ...