A review reveals dangerous vitamin deficiencies post-bariatric surgery, highlighting the need for improved follow-up to ...

Clinics use hypnosis to "fake" gastric banding surgery. April 13, 2010— -- Kay Lindley spent days preparing for her fake surgery. Lindley, 59, weighed 315 pounds and wanted to lose weight ...

Gastric banding surgery appears to be significantly more effective than lifestyle interventions in helping severely obese teenagers lose a significant amount of weight and keep it off, a new study ...

Gastric banding doesn't work as well as gastric bypass surgery, according to a new study in the journal Archives of Surgery. More than 200,000 weight loss surgeries are performed annually in the U ...

The surgery has been pushed back from Jan. 31 with no new date set yet. I'm not sure why it was pushed back; I can only assume the hospital where I'm undergoing the gastric banding surgery wants ...

In a Belgian study, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding resulted in a mean excess weight loss of 42.8 percent after 12 years and the operative mortality rate was zero. However, nearly one in three ...

Gastric bypass surgery has better outcomes than gastric banding for long-term weight loss, controlling type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, and lowering cholesterol levels, according to a new ...

The experts concluded that gastric bypass may help reduce GERD, but gastric banding does not -- a finding patients may want to consider when choosing one form of weight-loss surgery over another.

Gastric banding surgery involves placing an adjustable band around the top part of the stomach to create a small stomach pouch. Because their stomach pouches are smaller, banding patients eat less ...

With gastric banding, two to three years are required for peak weight loss. However, at the end of three years, the weight loss curves for both are flat and superimposed on each other.

Gastric bypass surgery has better outcomes than gastric banding for long-term weight loss, controlling type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, and lowering cholesterol levels, according to a new ...

From gastric band surgery to Ozempic, the 72-year-old has been candid about her diet and weight loss techniques.