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Gastric bypass death brings focus on risks

While a gastric bypass can help severely obese people maintain a healthier weight and in some cases even cure diabetes, the surgery has its own set of risks.

Addiction transference dieters' downfall

Andrew Kahn thought after he got his weight under control his problems would be over. Instead, he, like many gastric-bypass-surgery patients, traded his food addiction for an alcohol habit.

Mother and daughter slimmers shed 24st between them after matching gastric bypass surgery

Debbie Marchese and Chloe Paul both decided to go under the knife after they each hit 28 stone.

Obese Britain: NHS paid for 20 children as young as 15 to have gastric band or stomach stapling surgery in past two ...

Sussex, Sheffield, Barnsley, Portsmouth, Camden and Sandwell Primary Care Trusts all paid for children to have gastric band surgery.

Surgery changes North Iowans' lives

MASON CITY — Gary Schaefer remembers not too many years ago when he was on an insulin pump taking in the highest dose possible for his diabetes and weighing in at 556 pounds.