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 ...
Orange Regional Medical Center offers free Seminar offered on weight-loss surgery
MIDDLETOWN Orange Regional Medical Center will host a free educational seminar on bariatric weight loss surgery at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at the hospital’s Multipurpose Conference Room, located at 707 East Main St. in Middletown.
BLOOMINGTON -- The OSF Weight Management Center, which began seeing patients in January 2011, has "grown a lot more than I thought we would," weight management specialist and exercise physiologist Jordan Weber said.
BMI of Texas Makes Weight Loss Surgery More Affordable; Offers $1,000 Discount for Self-Pay Patients for Bariatric ...
BMI of Texas offers $1,000 discount to self-pay patients for weight loss surgery performed in February 2012.(PRWEB) January 24, 2012 In support of its “New Year, New You” campaign, The Bariatric Medical Institute of Texas (BMI of Texas) today announced a $1,000 discount for self-pay patients having weight loss surgery performed by one of its surgeons during the month of February 2012. The ...