MELBOURNE, Australia — Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding results in significant weight loss that is maintained for more than a decade, research shows [1]. The procedure, which cut excess weight ...

Wilmington’s A.I. duPont Hospital for Children is studying whether weight loss surgery can help severely overweight teens. During gastric band surgery, doctors buckle a silicone strip around the ...

A long-term study by Monash University researchers - the first of its kind - has found that gastric band surgery has significant benefits for moderately overweight people with type 2 diabetes.

Weight loss surgery, or bariatric surgery, offers a transformative option, helping patients to lose significant weight when other strategies fail. Excess weight and obesity-related health conditions ...

Weight-loss experts explain why combining GLP-1 medications with bariatric surgery may be the most effective approach to ...

A new study has called into question the safety and effectiveness of gastric banding. Over the course of nearly 5 years of follow-up, a study found that almost one in five Medicare beneficiaries who ...

Some providers have extended the use of gastric band surgery to patients with lower body mass indexes, following a recent FDA decision to lower the BMI threshold, according to a report by Mass Device.

Venture capital firms are increasingly backing bariatric ASCs, and the two makers of surgical devices for gastric banding procedures are engaged in “fierce competition,” a formula that’s turning a ...

Procedure N.J. governor had is no secret pill Life after gastric-band surgery requires work and discipline Reporter has battled obesity most of her life%3B also had gastric-bypass surgery When I read ...

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published research showing that bariatric surgery results in more significant weight loss and lower long-term costs compared to GLP-1 ...

The band's popularity has slipped in recent years. — -- When gastric band surgery was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2001, it was considered a key weapon in the fight ...

A woman who once weighed more than 26 stone has lost half her body weight after having gastric sleeve surgery and taking ...