A multidisciplinary team at a Mumbai hospital has successfully performed a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy on a 45-year-old ...

Bariatric surgery is a medical procedure that alters the digestive system to help individuals with obesity lose weight by ...

NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln announced on July 10 the launch of a new bariatric surgery program meant to give patients ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass leads to greater weight loss than sleeve gastrectomy in patients with obesity at 10 years, according to long-term follow-up from a Swiss randomized trial.

He has lost 19.5st (124kg) and will take on the 17-hour ironman race in Leeds on 27 July, which involves a 2.4 mile (3.8 km) ...

Sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass were associated with about five-times more weight loss than weekly injections of GLP-1 ...

Post-gastric sleeve patients may require higher doses of calcium supplements, and some forms, such as chewable tablets or liquid supplements, may be easier to digest and absorb than others.

Always the last one picked for team sports, she was cruelly nicknamed "splodge" after an overweight cartoon character. The ...