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Pregnancy after weight-loss surgery
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - (July 23, 2007) Approximately one-third of adult women in the United States are obese. Furthermore, 84 percent of those undergoing weight-loss surgeries are primarily females in the reproductive age group, including many teenagers. Therefore

LipoSelection: A gentler way to suck out the fat
WKRG - LipoSelection is not a good idea for people with multiple scars on the abdomen, people who are morbidly obese or people who have had weight loss surgery. After procedures like gastric bypass, patients are more likely to have problems with excess

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Worldnews.com - Learn more about weight-loss surgery Nashville Tennessean Learn more about weight-loss surgery Today , Aug. 23 Free seminar What: weight-loss surgery general education seminar. Who: hosted by Baptist Hospital. When: 6 p.m. Where: Baptist Hospital’s

Surgery that cuts fat lengthens life
Baltimore Sun - Growing numbers of obese people are opting for weight-loss surgery - once a risky last-resort procedure for the very fat - and new research suggests it is saving lives. Two studies being published today in The New England Journal of Medicine show

HEALTH NEWS
Syracuse Post-Standard - That may be too much information for some folks, but it comes from the most comprehensive sex survey ever done among 57- to 85-year-olds in the United States. Weight-loss surgery boosts survival rate 8/22/2007, 8:28 p.m. EDT LOS ANGELES (AP

Weight-Loss Surgery Boosts Survival Rate
Bucks County Courier Times - LOS ANGELES - The first long-term studies of stomach stapling and other radical obesity treatments show that they not only lead to lasting weight loss but also dramatically improve survival. The results are expected to lead to more such operations

Weight loss surgery poses risks
Orange County Register - Federal researchers found that complications from obesity surgery also add expenses. A typical surgery, without complications runs about $30,000. But a surgery with complications that require post-op hospitalization runs about $65,500. The most common

Special Care for International Patient in India for Obesity Surgery by
PR.com - An American patient from Houston-Texas chose India for her Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. Surgery was done by the obesity surgeons of Forerunners Healthcare who have been trained in the USA and UK. Mumbai, India, February 24, 2007 –( PR.com

Caution About On-Line Medical Information
WKRC - A new report says you might want to use caution when searching for medical information on-line. Local 12 Medical Reporter Liz Bonis explains why in today’s Health Alert. If you are scheduled for surgery or another medical procedure sometime soon, you

Obesity surgery center earns U.S. recognition
Salt Lake Tribune - It wasn’t long ago that Greg Nickles couldn’t fit in a restaurant booth. Or sit comfortably on an airplane without a seat belt extension. Or use anything other than the larger, wider handicapped stalls in public restrooms. Life at 383 pounds was a

Obesity surgery improves survival
Nashua Telegraph - Surgically induced weight loss produces as much as a 40 percent reduction in deaths in the 10 years after the operation, two large studies reported Thursday. The new studies, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, are the first to document

Weight-Loss Surgery Boosts Survival Rate
Bucks County Courier Times - The Swedish study is the longest look yet at how obesity surgery affects mortality. Researchers led by Dr. Lars Sjostrom of Goteborg University compared 4,047 people with a body-mass index over 34 who had one of three types of surgery or received

UCSD Researchers Conducting Teen Obesity Study
San Diego Channel - SAN DIEGO — Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center are conducting a clinical trial on the effects of obesity surgery on teenagers. The hospital is looking for 22 participants to take part in the nationwide study. The

Let’s Roll
Slate - The press blamed drugs, liposuction, illness, anorexia. But the gossip was merely a pretext to pose the question that arises whenever a celebrity trims down: How did he shed the weight? Never one to miss a lucrative opportunity, Lagerfeld, who has

Cosmetic Surgery:Is It For You?
pressbox.co.uk - The two most popular procedures here are tummy tucks and liposuction. The tummy tuck involves removing folds of overhanging skin and fatty tissue from around the midriff to give that smooth, tight, youthful look. For moderate weight reduction

Lasers simplify liposuction and its recovery
Houston Chronicle - We’ve all seen cosmetic surgery shows on TV: doctors using the surgical equivalent of a vacuum cleaner to suck unwanted fat from patients chins, thighs, tummies really, any body part. They leave the O.R. looking battered and bruised, but thinner

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