Severely overweight Americans are choosing to have weight-loss surgery as a means of improving their quality of life and reducing their risk for life-threatening conditions such as stroke, diabetes, heart disease and hypertension.
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Sisters Lorena Garcia, 39, and Alma Garcia, 41, were well aware of the toll that morbid obesity had taken on their […]
Sisters Lorena Garcia, 39, and Alma Garcia, 41, were well aware of the toll that morbid obesity had taken on their health. Alma was suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes and thyroid disease and Lorena had developed degenerative bone disease.
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Weight-loss surgeries are accompanied by complications like abdominal cramping, hernia or pneumonia in 40% of patients in the six months after the procedure according to a recent study. Researchers have proposed that such complications often run into thousands of dollars to patients’ medical bills.
This study was conducted by government economists and it is considered to […]
Losing weight quickly is not nearly as simple as cutting back on calories. There is another hidden “factor” which must be considered before beginning any diet program.
Newport Beach, CA (PRWEB) July 23, 2006 — All dieters know that calories are the enemy, and that eating more calories will equal more weight gained. Therefore, most people […]
DEVICE TO DETECT SPONGES A new hand-held scanning device similar to the wands used by airport security personnel could help surgeons detect surgical sponges accidentally left inside patients, according to research from Stanford University. To work, the technique requires that surgical sponges have radio ID chips inserted in them, but this device could help […]
Following up on our item regarding the positive exercise benefits of dog ownership (â€?Hounded Into Health“) comes a report that a University of Missouri-Colombia research study took a group of obese and otherwise sedentary men and women, issued them each a canine companion, and directed them to walk said companion, beginning at a rate of […]
DOCTORS are approving powerful prescription drugs over the internet for weight loss, impotence and baldness without seeing or actually speaking to their patients.
An investigation by The Sunday Times has found three British companies providing potentially dangerous medications including Viagra, the sexual performance drug, Xenical and Reductil, the slimming drugs, and Propecia, for baldness.
The British Medical […]
Five key characteristics may single out those patients most at risk for fatal complications from gastric bypass weight-loss surgeries, researchers report.
Gastric bypass surgery is a procedure performed on the morbidly obese to help them lose weight by manipulating the size of their stomachs. After surgery, patients’ stomachs can only hold small amounts of food, preventing […]
According to the results of a new study presented at the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery held between June 26 and July 1, weight loss surgery results in cutting heart disease risk nearly in half for the extremely obese individual.
The study also indicated that extremely obese people were not as […]
With highly-touted prescription diet drug Acomplia (Rimonabant) now on the market in Britain for about $3.50 per day, how much room does that leave for non-prescription Alli, a half-strength version of Xenical (orlistat), if it is approved as expected for over-the-counter sale later this summer?
That is the question a number of analysts are asking after […]