Obesity Surgery Headlines

Obesity: lose fork, go under the knife

Surgical procedures for obesity are on the rise along with questions about cost and safety IT'S hard to fit into your peer group when you don't fit into your clothes. And the 10-year-old Narelle Powell didn't fit into the clothes made for girls her age, not by a long chalk.

Obesity surgery death rates are low, study finds

Obese, but worried that surgery for it might kill you? The risk of that has dropped dramatically, and now is no greater than for having a gall bladder out, a hip replaced or most other major operations, new research shows.

Stomach stapling may lower cancer risk in women

Women who have their stomachs stapled not only lose weight, they also may reduce their cancer risk by up to 40 percent, new research says. In a study of more than 2,000 obese people who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs, Swedish researchers found women who had the procedure were less likely to get cancer than those who did not.

Tonsillectomy linked to excess weight gain in kids

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who undergo the surgical removal of their tonsils (tonsillectomy) with or without the removal of their adenoids (adenoidectomy) are at increased risk for becoming overweight in the years after surgery, according to a report in the journal Pedi …

Nation's 1st incisionless bariatric weight-loss surgery

Drs. Peter Denk, John Oldham Jr. and G. Derek Weiss performed the surgery by inserting a scope into McArthur's stomach, through her mouth. The surgeons then used specially designed tools to suture her stomach into a smaller shape.