Gastric Bypass Headlines

Gastric bypass better than Lap-Band, study finds

A study of the two most popular weight-loss surgeries found obese diabetics who had gastric bypass surgery lost 64 percent of their excess weight after a year, compared with 36 percent in those treated with Allergan Inc's Lap-Band device, researchers said on Monday.

Al’s fit club: Roker on 115-pound loss

As Al Roker Sr. was dying of cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, his eldest son, the famous television personality, would visit him every morning on his way to work on TODAY, where he was known far and wide — mostly wide — as “the funny, fat weatherman.”

Supermodel’s daughter details 170-pound loss

Her father is Spencer Haywood, a former Olympic basketball player and a legendary scorer in the NBA. Her mother is a supermodel so famous she needs only one name: Iman.

Long term, gastric bypass beats out banding: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among weight-loss surgery options, gastric bypass comes with more complications shortly after surgery than gastric banding, but makes up for it with fewer long-term side effects and repeat operations, new research suggests. People who got bypass surgery also lost weight faster, and more kept it off, in the study of more than 400 obese Swiss patients. "What we would ...

Dr. Oz Highlights the Benefits of Gastric Bypass Surgery, Even for Patients Who Are Not Morbidly Obese

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr.Mehmet Oz, a renowned cardiothoracic surgeon and author, recently dedicated an entire episode of his popular TV show Dr. Oz to the benefits of gastric bypass ...